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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...

it is reckoned that the normal population of Jerusalem was swollen several times over.59 Every devout Jew was obligated to spend one-tenth of the produce of his land in Jerusalem (the so-called ‘second tithe’).60 The trade and business which this generated and supported must have been enormous. In addition, the trades probably regarded the Temple as the centre of their operations too. If what we know of the integration between market-place and principal sanctuary in the typical cities of the eastern
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