During the early years of Christianity there were believing Jews and believing Gentiles who were followers of Yeshua (i.e. “Jesus”) the Messiah. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles records some of this history but by the second century of the Common Era (c.e./a.d.),the growth of Jewish Christianity declined in the aftermath of the Bar Kochba Revolt of 132-136. This decline, coupled with rising antisemitism, set the stage for centuries of hate and the growth of “replacement theology” or “supersessionism” that misrepresented Jews, Christians, and the Church. Drawing upon a lifetime of scholarship and study of the biblical text, Dr. Kaiser demonstrates the importance of “keeping your finger on the text” so that “our post-Holocaust theologies will reflect what Scripture promised Israel.”
