in the early church was the logical outcome of the hope for the final admission of the Gentiles in Jewish restoration eschatology and in Jesus’ own expression of a partially realized restoration eschatology. It is not without some justification that many scholars think it impossible to find in the Gospels any view of the Gentiles that is attributable to the historical Jesus. In this section I intend to outline the nature of this problem and then to provide several strands
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