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While we may know a considerable amount about the Roman world at the beginning of the second millennium, we know little about the early history of Christianity that began in that period. Jesus provided the stimulus for a number of Jesus-communities. There were groups that looked back to Christian leaders such as James the Just, Peter and the Twelve and Stephen. We will also see that Paul was revered by Christian communities in Asia Minor and Greece. Likewise a John was revered in Western Asia Minor.
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There will be a full commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in Chap. 16 below.
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Much more will be said about gnosis as the chapter develops.
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This could have given rise to a mistaken impression that Jesus the Nazarene’s (nazarenos) earlier years had been spent in Nazareth (nazaret).
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This would mean that the attendees at some synagogues in Jerusalem and elsewhere, whatever format they took, were faced with the decision to accept or reject one or other Jesus-ideology in circulation after his death. In other words some synagogues admitted Jesus-movement people, some did not. ‘Hellenists’ and ‘Hebrews’ would have been two such synagogues that did accept them. This system of Palestinian synagogues supporting both mainstream Jews and Jesus-movement people would have eventually collapsed, as it would do in Rome.
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Crotty, R. (2017). The Jesus Movement Communities in Palestine. In: The Christian Survivor. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3214-1_5
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