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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...

Temple Square We have emphasized how the Jewish religion, the Jewish way of life, through the encounter with Hellenism redefined itself and became, itself, an “ism”: Judaism. The Jewish way of life became an option for non-Jews by birth. The option of conversion to Judaism became a reality. But, unlike Hellenism, Judaism could not sever its links to something that was not an “ism” and never could be. At the heart of Judaism was something local and concrete, not movable: the temple. On the Temple
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