Judaism In The Beginning Of Christianity by Jacob Neusner
A concise study of the diverse Judaisms of the late Second Temple era, explaining how law, temple worship, and communal institutions shaped Jewish life and provided the matrix from which the early Christian movement emerged and later diverged, especially after 70 CE. Drawing on Josephus, Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and early rabbinic literature, it distinguishes among Pharisees, Sadducees, apocalyptic groups, and nascent rabbinism, while warning against retrojecting later rabbinic norms into the first century. It frames Christianity and rabbinic Judaism as parallel, methodologically distinct responses to shared crises within the same religious world.
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