Abstract
In a book published in 2012, S. C. Mimouni suggested a new model on Judaism after 70 c. e, defining two movements, the rabbinic and the Christian and a third component, which this scholar chose to call synagogal Judaism. The present article deals with the relationship between Christianity and synagogal Judaism. Concerning some beliefs, Christianity is closer to synagogal Judaism than to rabbinic Judaism. This proximity explains why several rabbinic texts, usually read in connection with Christianity, may be also and sometimes preferably related to synagogal Judaism. Throughout all the periods of its history (New Testament -Church Fathers – the Christian Roman empire), Christianity is confronted with synagogal Judaism and not only with the Pharisees-rabbis of the traditional historiographic narrative. With this new parameter, this history become fully understandable.
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