Does modern Messianic Judaism continue the ancient Jewish-believing sects?
2 positions · no single answer
Position A · held by Some modern adherents
Claimed communal continuity
Part of the modern movement claims continuity of community across the centuries in varied forms and places.
Rests on: p. 9
Reads the same page as : the same source, different readings.
Where the debate comes up
- 418 CEThe conversion of Minorca (418)
- 603–690 CEJewish believers in Visigothic Spain
- c. 850 CE to c. 860 CEPaulus Alvarus in Córdoba
- 1106 to c. 1140Petrus Alfonsi of Huesca
- c. 1150 to c. 1200The anonymous convert of Toledo
- 1236–1497Converts, disputations, and conversos (13th to 16th centuries)
- c. 1896 to 1954Hebrew Christianity and Levertoff
- c. 1970 to 2020Modern Messianic Judaism