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On Christmas Eve, Paula Fredriksen, one of the world's leading scholars of early Christianity, joins Bari Weiss to explore the first centuries of the Christian movement. The conversation examines the little-known fact that the earliest followers of Jesus were Jews who expected history to end imminently and did not set out to create a new religion. Fredriksen explains the gradual separation of Christianity from Judaism, the resistance from some Jews, and how the anti-Judaism of early Christian writings connects to modern antisemitism. These foundational centuries reveal crucial patterns about how ideas spread and persist.
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When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation — Paula Fredriksen — Explores how the first Christians understood themselves as a Jewish apocalyptic movement
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Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle — Paula Fredriksen — Re-examines Paul's mission to pagans within a Jewish framework
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Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years — Paula Fredriksen — Traces the diverse early Christian world
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✧Paula Fredriksen lives in Jerusalem, just 20 minutes from Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified.
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