The Churches Identity
There are some basic features that identify the Palestinian or otherwise known as the Jewish Church. There was shared common loyalty to the Mosaic Law (in Hebrew, Torah), yer first century Judaism was marred by manifested diversity. There were declarations of separate groupings yet they were in agreement of one thing, adversity toward Jesus as the Messiah.
Jewish communal groups of the church, according to Acts 1-12 were divided geographically and socially. Those believers in both urban and rural churches and those adversarial to these churches played a significant backdrop to the book of Acts. Diversity presents itself through the needs of those ministered to by the early church. It is interesting to note and follow
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The church kept its connection to and take guidance from its Jewish heritage: Jewish religious tradition combined with elements of Greek culture.
Jewish history is the historical accounts of the Jewish people, and their faith and ethos, as it advanced and intermingled with other societies, religions and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion is first revealed in Greek chronicles all through the Hellenistic period and the earliest mention of Israel is inscribed on the Merneptah Stele dated 1213–1203 BCE, religious works convey the story of Israelites going back to 1500 BCE at the