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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...

Jesus-devotion within a Jewish self-definition.46 This reminds us that such Christians saw themselves in continuity with the more diverse strands of second Temple Judaism; thus the points made in the last two paragraphs are reinforced. But it also reminds us that rabbinic Judaism was itself a narrower current within the broader stream which flowed from second Temple Judaism. Here we should underline a point which demands greater attention in all this: that second Temple Judaism was not transformed
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