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In the Shadow of the Temple offers a new perspective on the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism, and Eucharist) and doctrine (e.g., Scripture, Christology, and pneumatology). Oskar Skarsaune begins by tracing the story of second temple Judaism from the crisis of the Jewish encounter with Hellenism in the second century B.C. through the diverse Judaisms of the...

which attains its zenith in the scholar, the student and the scribe: “Raise up many disciples [of the Torah]” (M Avot 1:1); “Provide yourself with a teacher and get a fellow disciple” (M Avot 1:6); “The more study of the Law, the more life” (Hillel, M Avot 2:7). In these and other ways, Judaism was able to absorb Hellenistic ideas without losing its own identity or compromising its essential principles. These new ideas were used, in the words of M Avot 1:1, “to make a fence around the Torah”, to
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