In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity

Oskar Skarsaune makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism and Eucharist) and doctrine (e.g., Scripture, Christology, pneumatology). This book offers the new perspective that Christians were in ongoing and deep conversation with Jews during the early centuries leading up to Constantine. .

The common perception of a drastic "parting of the ways" after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. has tended to disto...