Jews and Christians in the first century. The struggle over identity
The early church's theological differentiation and social separation from Judaism were caused by elements that were actually native, and sometimes integral to Judaism itself. The diversity within Judaism allowed people to respond in diametrically opposite ways to two major issues. The first was...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1993
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Neotestamentica
Year: 1993, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 365-390 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Patterns of inclusivity and exclusivity B Talmudic period B Christology B HISTORY of Judaism B Judaism B Church History B Christianity B Hellenistic Judaism B Torah |
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| Summary: | The early church's theological differentiation and social separation from Judaism were caused by elements that were actually native, and sometimes integral to Judaism itself. The diversity within Judaism allowed people to respond in diametrically opposite ways to two major issues. The first was Christology. Was Jesus, or was Jesus not God's unique eschatological agent - Lord, Messiah, son of man, incarnate Wisdom, the final sacrifice for sin - and as such was he raised from the dead and exalted in heaven? Secondly, and related to one's answer to the first question: what was the role of Torah, and were gentiles who thought that their faith in Christ excluded Torah obedience, members of the covenant community? As the increasingly gentile church focused on Christological faith and marginalised the importance of the Torah, they developed an exclusivistic faith and both drew on sectarian tendencies within Judaism (exemplified in the books of Enoch and some of the Qumran literature and claimed, ironically, that they, and not the Jews, were the true Israel. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/AJA2548356_313 |