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