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Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries examines the formative first five centuries of Christian history as experienced by individuals who were ethnically Jewish but who professed faith in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Offering the work of an impressive international team of scholars, this unique study examines the first five centuries of texts thought to have been authored or edited by...

ch. 24 (cf. 24:1, 25:1, “and after these things”), the verse refers to the return from the Babylonian exile. The added ch. 24 has an Old Testament-Jewish Christian flavor: Jesus is called “star from Jacob,” “a man arises … like the sun of righteousness,” “the branch of God Most High.” Jesus’ kingdom is that of Judah, probably understood in a millenarian way: “Then the sceptre of my kingdom will shine.” From the stem of the root of Judah (Isa 11:1) “a rod of righteousness will arise for the nations
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