terms express indicates clearly enough that in the beginning, embryonic Christianity was self-consciously Jewish in its self-designation and claims and was so perceived during that beginning period. We recall, of course, that Second Temple Judaism itself was diverse in character.72 The point is that in the beginning, the new movement which was embryonic Christianity was part of that diversity, wholly ‘inside’ the diversity of first-century Second Temple Judaism. That is a large conclusion to draw
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