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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...

was fully observant, and that his followers’ belief that he was a messiah was not dissimilar from other Jewish messianic expectations.11 Pauline scholars contend that Paul’s use of Jewish law revised that of many Jewish contemporaries or was remarkably similar.12 Several insist that he saw two communities within his churches—Jewish and gentile—and saw no problem with Jewish Jesus-followers keeping Mosaic law.13 Other scholars are now seeing the Letter to the Hebrews—long interpreted as showing a
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