However, it appears equally clear that most non-Christian Jews came to view Christians as not true Jews, due principally to their belief in and worship of Jesus. On the other hand, the earliest Jewish Christians saw themselves as the very definition of true Jews. By the time we get to what are probably Paul’s earliest extant letters, Galatians and 1 and 2 Thessalonians, all written somewhere around A.D. 50, a clear distinction is made between Jews and the followers of Jesus, and even more strikingly