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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...

can no longer be held. Particularly influential here has been the work of Martin Hengel, especially his massive study of the same title.40 The basic point which he makes is that Hellenistic influences had penetrated into Palestine for centuries before Jesus—from Alexander the Great onwards in particular, but even before then. So, for example, for the time of Jesus we can say with confidence that Greek would have been widely known and used in Palestine. We know from inscriptions that people in Jerusalem
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