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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...

They belong therefore to the community’s consciousness of itself as the nucleus of the restored Israel, reconstituted through a new exodus as the new “congregation of YHWH.” (2) The pillars: Paul uses this term to describe three of the Jerusalem leaders: James the brother of Jesus, Peter, and John the son of Zebedee (Gal 2:9). It is clear from his account that this was how they were known in the Jerusalem church. The term may well have been applied also to other such leaders. It probably reflects
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