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From around 75 CE, Christianity in Rome had severed any direct connection with Palestinian Christianity. It acknowledged the Jesus-Tradition, as is clear in 1 Clement, but it claimed to have received this tradition from Peter and Paul during their domicile in Rome. Roman Christianity developed Roman Traditions based on the Jesus-Tradition, and then the gospel of Mark edited these and put them into a discursive text. Roman Christianity and its Gospel of Mark then moved into the East. Archaeological sites in Capernaum, Nazareth and the Cenacle in Jerusalem allow a reconstruction of that movement, overwhelming the native Palestinian Jesus-movements, still largely linked to the Jewish synagogue.
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Josephus mistakenly called this area ‘Mount Zion’. By his time, it had been forgotten that David’s place of residence had been traditionally placed on the opposite spur, Ophel. Visitors presumed that David would have lived in the more opulent west side where their own aristocracy lived. Any identification of sites for a David are very questionable.
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It is debatable whether these Jesus-movement people had been previously in Pella since prior to the destruction of Jerusalem. Murphy-O’Connor argues that only Eusebius posited the flight to Pella and his statement was later taken up by Epiphanius. Since Pella was a Gentile city, attacked by Jews under Alexander Jannaeus and again at the beginning of the First Revolt, it would hardly have welcomed the Jewish Christians.
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Crotty, R. (2017). Roman Christianity Returns to the East. In: The Christian Survivor. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3214-1_12
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