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22 July 2022
The term Judaisms, where I use it, is intended as an acknowledgment that many different Judaisms have existed throughout history, and there is not, as occasionally implied by the term, a single Judaism consisting of a single set of agreed-upon beliefs and practices.
In its earliest stages, the movement that would grow into Christianity was a Judaism that included a belief in Jesus as the Messiah. Or, to be scrupulous about it, Christianities were Judaisms that included a belief in Jesus. Especially in early Christianity, there were all sorts of various beliefs and practices that would today be considered, by many Christians, to be unorthodox.
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