logic (reminiscent of the linguistic relativism of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis),48 but it also has resulted in a number of problems with question framing, such as question begging or creating a false dichotomy.49 This criterion seems to require an almost exclusively Semitic language environment for the early church—a narrative that is disputed by much contrary evidence.50 The result is that it is very difficult to narrativize an account of the Jews within the Greco-Roman world (where not only culturally
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