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Parting Ways (2/5): A Jewish Jesus movement, and the fight over Torah law

Show notes In this episode Part 2 follows the Jesus movement before it became a separate religion. In the first decades after Jesus’s death, the argument was still internal: how to read Torah in what felt like an apocalyptic moment, what Gentile followers should do about circumcision and food laws, and whether Jews and Gentiles could share a table without dissolving Jewish boundaries. We move through: • why our sources are not neutral, and what order they arrive in (Paul before the Gospels; Acts later still) • what ‘Torah’ meant in Second Temple Jewish life, beyond “a legal code” or “rituals” • why food and circumcision became flashpoints, where theology hit bodies and households • Antioch and the table-fellowship conflict in Galatians 2 • Acts 15 and the Apostolic Decree as an attempt at practical compromise • Paul’s push for Gentile inclusion without conversion, and why that felt like drift to Torah-observant Jews • how the temperature changes across the Gospel tradition as decades pass • why the split begins as daily community mechanics before it gets retold as theology Key texts mentioned Paul’s letters (Britannica overview): https://www.britannica.com/topic/bibl... Acts as later origin-story writing (Britannica overview): https://www.britannica.com/topic/bibl... Galatians 2:11–14 (Peter, Antioch, table fellowship): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/... Acts 15 (Jerusalem council and the Apostolic Decree): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/... Mark 7 (purity dispute and later editorial framing): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/... Concepts and terms • Torah: covenant life, not just text, including calendar, food, kinship, purity, and communal practice • Circumcision: covenant marker with social cost in Greco-Roman public life • Table fellowship: where boundary questions become unavoidable in mixed communities • Porneia: a broad term in early Christian texts, often read against Jewish sexual prohibitions • Apostolic Decree: a minimum set of prohibitions aimed at making shared life workable in mixed groups What’s next Part 3 picks up when the unresolved Torah dispute meets a demographic fact: once the default member is Gentile, Torah stops being lived knowledge and becomes something to interpret from the outside. Read the written version: https://open.substack.com/pub/danjaco...