The Separation of Early Christianity from Judaism By Marianne Da ...

Council of Arles and especially the Council of Nicaea. The reasons for the failure of the Jewish-Christian movement are studied in chapter 2. Chapter 3 looks at statements about Jews in the early church council documents and what they reveal about issues of separation. The fourth chapter discusses the Theodosian Code and the laws concerning Jews, pointing out the gradual erosion of Jewish privileges with the rise of Christianity, and the attempts to separate Christians from Jewish practices. Chapter 5 examines the Jewish roots of Christian liturgy and notes the developing christological focus. The sixth chapter treats the church's efforts to separate the Sabbath from Sunday. The seventh chapter provides a close study of the struggle to separate the date of Passover from Easter, the latter replacing Passover as the most important feast in Christianity. Chapter 8 looks at what can be revealed from archaeology about separation, while chapter 9 examines the few remarks that appear to be about Christianity in the rabbinic sources, and their significance.⁶⁰ Conclusions about the separation of Christianity from Judaism have been constructed on the basis of the evidence examined.