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Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Essays on the Relationship between Christianity and Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Explore the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. The question of how Jesus’ followers relate to Judaism has been a matter of debate since Jesus first sparred with the Pharisees. The controversy has not abated, taking many forms over the centuries. In the decades following the Holocaust, scholars and theologians reconsidered the Jewish origins and character of Christianity, finding...

metonymically for a whole people precisely because it characterized a people’s whole existence, a complete way of life.”4 Romans 2:25 and Galatians 5:3 confirm that Paul linked circumcision to law observance. He writes in Romans 2:25—“Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision” (NRSV). In Galatians 5:3, Paul makes the same point in more explicit language—“Once again I testify to every man who lets himself be circumcised
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