1. Varieties of Ancient Judaism

• Sadducees
• Essenes
• Zealots
• Pharisees
• The Jesus Movement

2. The First Christians

• Temple Worship
• Observance of Torah
• Messianic Expectation

3. Early Differentiation of Christians

• “Martyrdom” of Stephen
• Paul and Peter in Galatia: the question of the Jewish “Law”
• Christian use of the “Scriptures”

4. The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism

• The Jewish War and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
• Process of Canonization
• Oral Law
• “Rabbis”

5. Interactions of Christianity and Judaism in Late Antiquity

Web Resources:

• Christian Late Antiquity
• Ecole Initiative (early church history)
• Wheaton College (church history documents)
• Early Church Documents
• Catholic Encylopedia (partisan, dated, but still useful)