"One of the ironies of early Christianity is that Jesus himself was a Jew who worshiped the Jewish God, kept Jewish customs, interpreted the Jewish law, and acquired Jewish disciples, who accepted him as the Jewish messiah. Yet, within just a few decades of his death, Jesus's followers had formed a religion that stood over-against Judaism. How did Christianity move so quickly from being a Jewish sect to being an anti-Jewish religion?"
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Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, ch. 7, "The Social Worlds of the Text", p. 187. HarperCollins (2007). .
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