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Christian-Jewish relations have varied throughout the centuries; at times they have been peaceful with a semblance of mutual understanding, but occasionally these relations have been ones of tension, often involving recrimination and even violence. In Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries, the contributors address a number of major questions which have been at the heart and the...

the yoke of the Torah. The Christian councils depicted in Acts 11 and 15 exemplify the nature of the problems brought on by early Christianity’s aggressive Gentile mission. Pauline polemic against the ‘Judaizers’ (as seen especially in the Galatians epistle) offers first-hand evidence of how divisive this issue was. Another serious point of disagreement between Christians and non-Christian Jews concerned the divinity of Jesus. The tendency of the Greco-Roman church to deify Jesus in the absolute
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