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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
Today, according to 2013 data from the Pew Research Center, about 1.6 million adult American Jews identify themselves as Christians, most of them Protestant. [18] [19] [20] Of those, most were raised as Jews or are Jews by ancestry. [19] According to a 2012 study 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians.
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their ...
Jewish Christians continued to worship in synagogues together with contemporary Jews for centuries. [126] [127] [128] Some scholars have found evidence of continuous interactions between Jewish-Christian and Rabbinic movements from the mid-to late second century CE to the fourth century CE.
G.E.M. — notable Hong Kong singer who was baptized and became a Christian in 2011. [85] Vanity — former front woman of Vanity 6 who after becoming a Christian renounced her stage name and music and started to preach in different parts of the U.S. [86] [87] [88]
Ayya Khema, Buddhist teacher (born Jewish) Adolf Lasson. Georg Lasson; Johannes Pfefferkorn, antisemitic controversialist (born Jewish) Friedrich Adolf Philippi; Johann Peter Spaeth (Moses Germanus Ashkenazi), a Christian German Proselyte; Edith Stein, canonized nun, Holocaust victim (born Jewish)
Géza Vermes, world-renowned historical Jesus research scholar, Hebraist and historian of religion, best known for being an eminent translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls; [39] [40] a former Roman Catholic priest of Jewish descent, he rediscovered his Jewish roots, abandoned Christianity and converted to Liberal Judaism. [39] [40]
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