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For more than three decades, Professor David Flusser of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has pioneered new understandings of the Jewish background of early Christianity. Most of his scholarly articles in English, including some new contributions as well as many published in not easily accessible journals, have been collected in this one volume. A must for New Testament scholars and students of...

The differentiation between rabbinic thought and the Essene theological system enables us to recognize what preceded the rise of the two subsequent stages in early Christianity. While the first stage developed from the mainly rabbinic character of the message of Jesus and of the Palestinian Jewish churches, the second stratum of early Christianity embodied in the so called kerygma of the Christian hellenistic communities was indebted to Essenism. I devoted to this problem both a long study, “The
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