The Reluctant Parting Quotes

“The New Testament authors fought, ultimately in vain, to maintain their legitimacy as Jews. Read as a Jewish book, the New Testament becomes the story of a reluctant parting—the closing arguments, the last hopes—before Christians ceased, sometimes angrily, sometimes sadly, to be a part of the Jewish people.”
― Julie Galambush, The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book