Since the Judaism and Christianity we know and speak of in our day were only in the gradual process of formation in the first century—hence scholars speak of “formative Judaism” and “early Christianity”—the terms are obviously anachronistic in the discussion of our subject, and thus can be more of a hindrance than a help. It is of course clearly wrong to read the content of the fully developed Judaism and Christianity of later centuries into our first-century sources.
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