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How is it that a first-generation Jewish messianic movement undertook a mission to the pagan world and rapidly achieved a momentum that would have a lasting and significant impact on world history? This momentous question has surprisingly eluded the concentrated focus of historians and New Testament scholars. Perhaps it is because the story of early Christian mission encompasses so much of the...

3. The role of the Hebrew language in the first century is debated. Some scholars believe that Hebrew was spoken only in the synagogues and in the learned disputations of the scribes and priests. Other scholars are convinced that Hebrew continued as the colloquial language of Palestinian Jews, perhaps in particular in Jerusalem, possibly even as the language of the common people in Galilee. Yet other scholars think that Hebrew was used by specific groups defined by particular social or geographical
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