re: #329 freetoken
Looks like a really good resource at that link. Thank you for it.
There was a comment in a book I was reading recently (it may be the Jewish Commentary on the New Testament that I have) to the effect that you don’t have arguments like Jesus had with the Pharisees unless you see yourselves as members of the the same tribe. The later schism with the synagogues and the destruction of Jerusalem had a profound and often negative effect on the material being written down that would become the Gospels. Even the very Jewish at it’s core Gospel of Matthew was infected at that time.