Jewish-Christians in Palestine?

IN this chapter, we will explore the question of who the Jewish Christians were (and who they were not) and also look at literary and archaeological evidence that might testify to their presence in Palestine and Syria in the Roman and Byzantine periods. If the Bagatti-Testa hypothesis has Jewish-Christians as the conservators of holy places, does the evidence for this hypothetical group stand up to cross-examination? ‘Jewish-Christianity’ and ‘Judaeo-Christianity’ are synonymous terms used in modern scholarship to refer to a supposed religious phenomenon which spans the period from the very beginnings of Christianity to some time in the fifth century, when it is perceived to be extinct. Jewish-Christians are generally understood to have been marginalized, accepted neither by church nor by synagogue, because they intended to be both Jewish and Christian at one and the same time. One of the reasons why it has been possible for the Bagatti-Testa school to develop the hypothesis that early Jewish-Christians preserved and venerated many important Christian holy sites is the climate of uncertainty that has surrounded studies of Jewish Christianity.

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