The Greco-Roman World and the Jewish Sibling Paradigm

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At a Glance

Traditional historiography has long framed the emergence of early Christianity as a clean, linear rupture from a monolithic “Judaism”—a narrative commonly termed the “parting of the ways.” Contemporary Second Temple scholarship demonstrates, instead, that first-century identity was constrained by the socio-political matrix of the Roman Empire and a plural Jewish landscape.