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How was it that early Christian reflection on Jesus emerged so rapidly and with such a high degree of definition? What patterns of interpretation, already known in late Second Temple Palestine, crystallized around the person of Jesus Christ and his work? Margaret Barker believes that Christian theology matured quickly because it was the return to a far older faith. Those who preserved the...

assuming ‘the acute Hellenization … the syncretistic paganization of primitive Christianity’, and repeating this argument without verifying it adequately in the ancient sources.11 Things are changing. If Jesus taught people who were familiar with the world of the Dead Sea Scrolls, then this must have been part of the actual ‘New Testament background’. These people even had different Hebrew Scriptures—different books and different versions of familiar texts such as Isaiah. What has happened to all
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