Term "Jewish Christian" appears in historical texts contrasting Christians of Jewish origin with gentile Christians, both in discussion of the New Testament church and the second and following centuries.
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12 Facts About Jewish Christian
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Jewish Christian messianism has its root in the apocalyptic literature of the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE, promising a future "anointed" leader or Messiah to resurrect the Israelite "Kingdom of God", in place of the foreign rulers of the time.
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Jewish Christian's remaining disciples later believed that he was resurrected.
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Jesus was Jewish Christian, preached to the Jewish Christian people, and called from them his first followers.
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Jewish Christian messianism has its root in the apocalyptic literature of the 2nd century BCE to 1st century BCE, promising a future "anointed" leader or messiah to restore the Israelite "Kingdom of God", in place of the foreign rulers of the time.
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Jewish Christian adopted the name Paul and started proselytizing among the gentiles, adopting the title "Apostle to the Gentiles".
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Strack theorizes that the growth of a Jewish Christian canon was a factor that influenced the rabbis to record the oral law in writing.
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The Nazarenes, who held to orthodoxy but adhered to Jewish Christian law, were not deemed heretical until the dominance of orthodoxy in the 4th century.
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Gentile Christianity remained the sole strand of orthodoxy and it imposed itself on the previously Jewish Christian sanctuaries, taking full control of those houses of worship by the end of the 5th century.
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In modern times, the term "Jewish Christian" is generally used in reference to ethnic Jews who have either converted to or been raised in Christianity.
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