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Jesus and the Synagogues
Jesus was a real part of the giant stream of jewish history and tradition that stretched back in continuity for centuries. The point of all this is to know that christianity didn't just pop out of nowhere with brand new ideas fallen from heaven. We have pretty good evidence that jews were causing a stir in the roman synagogues as early as the mid forties a d. That's just ten or so years after jesus. And george even reckons that paul's letter to the romans, one of the most important texts in the new testament, was in part written to encourage the christians of rome, some of whom were jews