"Hellenists"--Jews who spoke Greek . . . in the synagogue, and related themselves to Hellenistic culture. The last, the Apostles, under Barnabas and Paul, worked with synagogues in what is now Turkey and Greece, ministering especially to "godfearers"--Greek men and women attracted to Judaism but who were not proselytes (Eberts 305-6).
Eberts describes the distinctive theologies of each group as partly rival conceptions of the correct versus heretical Christian message, partly a function of the distinct populations targeted in the apostolic era of the Roman Empire as either Jewish or Gentile, partly a function of emergent institutional dynamics of the period. Pe
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