The first, and best-known, of these fixed and yet unfixed points was found in the struggle between Judaism and Hellenism. This was projected on to the early church, producing what have been called ‘Jewish Christianity’ and ‘Hellenistic Christianity’.2 Not much thought was given to the facts that the distinction between the two cultural blocks was difficult to press in the first century anyway; that Judaism and Hellenism, in so far as one can separate them, were themselves sufficiently pluriform to make the labels fairly useless; that almost all first-generation Christianity was in some sense
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