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Saturday, July 04, 2020

Review of Fredriksen, When Christians Were Jews

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | When Christians Were Jews (Shayna Sheinfeld).
Paula Fredriksen. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation. Yale University Press, 2018.

Paula Fredriksen’s newest book attempts a difficult feat: to understand the first generation of Jesus followers, despite having to do so with an eclectic smattering of passionately biased evidence that also happens to have been cherished as sacred text by almost two thousand years of interpreters. ...

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