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They were written at a time when Judaism had come under fire, for the recent revolt in Jerusalem against Roman occupation, and after the Jewish leaders had begun writing anathemas against Christianity into the daily prayers for the faithful, so the early Christians wanted to distinguish themselves from the Jews.

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