Today there is clear distinction between Judaism and Christianity, but it wasn't always so. The family resemblance is quite strong! Rather than think of Judaism and Christianity as having a mother-daughter relationship, its helpful to think of them as sisters, both born from the womb of Second Temple Judaism. As any siblings who fight, it can get quite nasty at times, and they can squabble over seemingly trivial things.

This is the first of three episodes discussing the "parting of the ways", the scholarly term for the process of the gradual distinction between what we now call Judaism and what we now call Christianity. This complicated process took place over a long period time; we can see its beginnings in the tensions of the New Testament, but its end point is probably a lot later than you would have imagined!