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The Partings of the Ways: Between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Parting of the Ways is James D. G. Dunn’s classic exploration of the important questions that surround the emergence of Christian distinctiveness and the pulling apart of Christianity and Judaism in the first century AD. It begins by surveying questions asked since the time of F. C. Baur in the nineteenth century. The author then presents the four pillars of Judaism: monotheism, election and...

eschatological banquet, are the very ones Jesus says firmly are to be in-cluded. Those to whom he speaks and of whom he speaks in Luke 14 are urged to make particular point of including in their table-fellowship just those whom Qumran excluded. It is very difficult to imagine that Jesus was unaware of this parallel: the repetition of the list of those excluded from the Qumran table-fellowship indicates that it was a point of emphasis for the Qumran covenanters, and that it would probably be quite
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