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