Tag: Church
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Pascha, Easter, and the Slow Separation of the Church from Israel Many Christians assume the split between the Church and the Jewish people happened early—almost immediately after Jesus. But history tells a much slower, more complicated story. In this article we will follow the development of Pascha—the early Christian observance of Jesus’ death and resurrection…
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The Twentieth Century and the Reopening of a Closed Door¹ For nearly seventeen centuries, Jewish faith in Yeshua existed under severe constraint. The structures established in late antiquity made it virtually impossible for a Jew to confess Yeshua without abandoning Jewish identity, community, and practice (Parting of The Ways). Against that long history, the twentieth…
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The Parting of the Ways: The fracture of the ekklesia The separation between the Jewish community and the Yeshua-believing ekklesia (The “Church”) was not an apostolic development but a gradual historical process shaped by Roman law, imperial violence, and post-Temple Jewish survival strategies. In the first century, the movement around Yeshua functioned entirely within Judaism.…