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A:John Dominic Crossan (The Birth of Christianity) believes we should not think of Christianity as breaking away from Judaism. He says it is more accurate to say that, out of that matrix of biblical Judaism and that maelstrom of late Second-Temple Judaism, two great traditions eventually emerged: Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. Each claimed exclusive continuity with the past, but each was as great a leap and as valid a development from that common ancestry as was the other.

With the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, these two emerging traditions struggled to establish legitimacy. Christianity, as it would become known, sought to demonstrate that it was the true successor to Temple Judaism, just as rabbinic Judaism did. We can see in the succession of gospels, from the first New Testament gospel, Mark, to the last, John, that ill-feelings between Christianity and rabbinic Judaism increased quite rapidly over the decades. The Jews, in return banned Christians from entering the synagogues around 95 CE and required worshippers to prove their allegiance by condemning Christians.

The Jews had rejected Christianity and it became a religion for gentiles, with the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies more a matter of demonstrating the antiquity of the faith's underlying beliefs. Even today, this is an underlying message in portraying the life of Jesus as fulfilling the Old Testament.

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