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Peter did not go to Rome. At least, there is no convincing evidence for it. Rome had honoured him, in the same way as other Peter Jesus-movement groups in Palestine had done. However, the Christian-Tradition in Rome was to be considerably modified by contact with the tradition of Isaac. Our present text is in Genesis 22. In this form the text had been used by the Persians as legitimising their possession of Judaea and then by the Hasmoneans to legitimise their own takeover. The Jewish Isaac-Tradition was expanded by the early Christian period to include an adult Isaac, willingly giving consent to his near-sacrifice. Christians maintained, against the Jews, that this Isaac foreshadowed Jesus. Following the example of Isaac, he would be sacrificed by his Father for the forgiveness of the sins of all.
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The ritual of circumcision would have been read back into the Ancestor period by an editor who would have been living in the Persian period (539–333 BCE).
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Rahab was a harlot who sheltered the soldiers from Joshua’s army when they entered Jericho to spy on its defences.
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See the reference to a list of ten ‘tests’ of Abraham in the text of Jubilees 19.
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This is an alternative spelling sometimes used in the literature.
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The text used is James 1917.
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In about the same time slot, Carthage shows evidence of widespread child sacrifice with 20,000 urns containing child remains dating from the period 400–200 BCE.
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See earlier remarks of the proximity of the Mithraic temple to the Christian church at San Clemente.
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On 2 Peter see Chap. 18.
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Crotty, R. (2017). The Isaac Tradition. In: The Christian Survivor. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3214-1_8
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