61.2 The Diversity of First Century Judaism
396.6 'Christians': The Birth of a New Label and What It Erased
71.3 Messianic Expectations and the Hope of Israel
406.7 Marcion and the Assault on the Hebrew Scriptures
8Chapter Two: Yeshua, Son of David — A Teacher in the Tradition of Israel
416.8 The Gentile Church Councils and the Severing of Jewish Roots
92.1 The Jewish Teacher from Nazareth
426.9 Supersessionism: The Theology of Replacement
102.2 Parables, Healing, and the Kingdom of God
43Chapter Seven: Fragmentation — The Long Aftermath of Lost Roots
112.3 Death on the Roman Cross and Resurrection
447.1 Theological Fragmentation Without Torah as the Common Foundation
12Chapter Three: The Birth of the Messianic Community — Deeply and Thoroughly Jewish
457.2 The Loss of Yeshua's Jewish Context
133.1 Shavuot and the Outpouring of the Ruach HaKodesh
467.3 The Misreading of Paul: How the Most Jewish of Apostles Became the Father of Anti-Torah Christianity
143.2 A Community Rooted in Jewish Practice
47The Problem of Reading Paul Without Jewish Context
153.3 Leadership Structures Drawn from Jewish Models
48Augustine, Luther, and the Introspective Reading
16Chapter Four: The Gentiles Come In — Torah Study in the Synagogue
49Specific Texts and Their Distortion
174.1 God-Fearers, Proselytes, and the Synagogue World
50The New Perspective and the Paul Within Judaism School
184.2 The Jerusalem Council and the Question of Gentile Inclusion
51The Human Cost of Misreading Paul
194.3 Paul: Jewish Apostle to the Nations
527.4 Fragmentation into Misplaced Ideologies
20Chapter Five: Worship, Torah, and Daily Life in the Messianic Community
537.5 Antisemitism: The Most Devastating Consequence
215.1 Prayer and the Hebrew Scriptures
547.6 The Remnant That Remained — Jewish Believers Through the Centuries
225.2 The Communal Meal and Covenant Memory
55Chapter Eight: Theology and Identity — Who We Are in the Story of Israel
235.3 Ethical Life Shaped by Torah
568.1 Yeshua as the Culmination of Israel's Story
24Chapter Six: The Great Unraveling — How Gentile Believers Lost Their Jewish Roots
578.2 Torah as Gift, Not Burden
256.1 The Catastrophe of 70 C.E. — When the Center Did Not Hold
588.3 The People of God — One Tree, Not Two
266.2 The Fiscus Judaicus — Taxation, Identity, and Forced Separation
598.4 The Hope of the Age to Come
27The Tax Under Domitian: Enforced Identity and the Crisis of Association
60Chapter Nine: Legacy and the Path Forward
28The Tax Under Nerva: 'Relief' That Deepened the Divide
619.1 What Was Preserved and What Was Lost
29The Fiscal and the Theological: How Economics Shaped Doctrine
629.2 Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Theological Recovery
306.4 The Seventh Day to the First: How the Biblical Sabbath Was Replaced and Why It Matters
639.3 The Modern Messianic Jewish Movement
31The Sabbath in the Hebrew Bible and in the Life of Yeshua
649.4 The Enduring Relevance of the First Century Model
32The Apostolic Community and the Seventh Day
65Conclusion: Returning to the Root
33The Gradual Shift: Second Century Motivations
66References
