Jews and Gentiles in the Early Jesus Movement An Unintended Journey
, by Bibliowicz, Abel Mordechai- ISBN: 9781137281098 | 113728109X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/18/2013
This work offers new insights on Jewish-Gentile relations in the Jesus movement and thereafter, and provides a synthesis and expansion of existing research. The rejection of Judaism by most Gentile believers in Jesus and the rejection by the Jewish descendents of Jesus' disciples and first followers of the many forms of Gentile belief in Jesus that surfaced following the missions to the Gentiles, emerge as the triggers of a protracted and bitter struggle about identity, legitimacy and authority that burst into the open during the early decades of the second century, and continued well into the fifth.