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  2. Christianity in the 1st century - Wikipedia

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    Christianity in the 1st century continued the practice of female Christian headcovering (from the age of puberty onward), with early Christian apologist Tertullian referencing 1 Corinthians 11:2–10 and stating "So, too, did the Corinthians themselves understand [Paul]. In fact, at this day the Corinthians do veil their virgins.

  3. Split of Christianity and Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Most historians agree that Jesus or his followers established a new Jewish sect, one that attracted both Jewish and gentile converts. According to New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman, a number of early Christianities existed in the first century CE, from which developed various Christian traditions and denominations, including proto-orthodoxy. [13]

  4. Jewish Christianity - Wikipedia

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    At first, these Jewish Christians, originally the central group in Christianity, were not declared unorthodox but they were later excluded from the Jewish community and denounced. Some Jewish Christian groups, such as the Ebionites , were accused of having unorthodox beliefs, particularly in relation to their views of Christ and gentile converts.

  5. Conversions of Jews to Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Germany had three main periods of conversion, the first beginning with the Mendelssohnian era (see the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment) and a second wave occurred during the first half of the 19th century. A list of 32 Jewish families and 18 unmarried Jews who had recently converted was given by David Friedlander to Prussian State Chancellor ...

  6. List of converts to Christianity from Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, to Roman Catholicism, and to Orthodox Christianity [2] Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year—1,000 in Austria Hungary (Galizian Poland), 1,000 ...

  7. Josephus on Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides external information on some people and events found in the New Testament. [1] The extant manuscripts of Josephus' book Antiquities of the Jews, written around AD 93–94, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist. [2]

  8. Hebrew Christian movement - Wikipedia

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    The first identifiable congregation made up exclusively of Jews who had converted to Christianity was established in the United Kingdom in 1813; [4] a group of 41 Jewish Christians established an association called "Beni Abraham", and started meeting at Jews' Chapel in London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning; [5] In 1885, the first Hebrew Christian church was established in New York ...

  9. Early Church of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The First Epistle to the Thessalonians (written around 50), in which Paul vehemently polemicizes against the Jewish authorities persecuting his mission (1 Thess 2:14-16), seems to reflect a politically tense situation in which there was "harassment and hostility against Christians and Christian communities in Palestine".