When was it that Christianity, born as a particular current within Judaism, constituted itself as a religion different and separate from the Jewish religion? Traditional opinion considered the founders of Christianity to be Jesus of Nazareth and Paul of Tarsus. But recent studies affirm that a Christian religion as distinct from Jewish religion can be spoken of only much later, and that for the entire first century, and for at least a part of the second century, Christianity was nothing more than a sect within Judaism. Dealing with the problem from an historical point of view, and thus considering not only Christianity of Jewish origin, but also that of gentile origin, Giorgio Jossa demonstrates that the birth of a Christian identity as distinct from Jewish identity must actually be dated back to the first period of life of the community of Jesus.weiterlesen