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Bird argues that Jesus was attempting to achieve and enact the restoration of Israel, and in continuity with other strands of Jewish belief, Jesus conceived of the restoration of Israel as resulting in the salvation of the gentiles. Jesus’ mission was Israel-centric, but he espoused a view of restoration that was indebted to certain strands of Israel’s sacred traditions where the gentiles are...

The problem of Jesus and the Gentiles is a vexing one for students of Christian origins. The difficulty is in understanding how the attitudes in early Christianity about the inclusion of the Gentiles and the beginning of the Gentile mission evidenced in the New Testament relate to the aims and intentions of the historical Jesus. In short, what did Jesus believe about the salvation of the Gentiles and to what extent did his views provide the impetus for a later Gentile mission? Did Jesus sanction
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