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Episode 229: Joel Marcus - Parting of the Ways Between Judaism & Christianity

The Bible For Normal People

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I Don't Come to Destroy the Law, but to Fulfill It

What became Christianity really began as a Jewish sect. The Gospels themselves have memories about Jesus, but those memories have been refracted through the later situations of the church in which they were written. But you know, if you go to one of the earlier Gospels and that's Matthew, you see that the whole kind of structure of that Gospel is very Jewish.

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