Conceiving the Parting of the Ways by Jesus, Paul, and Luke

I’m about to return to the subject of parting of the ways between Jews and Christians for an IBR paper and in my notes I found some interesting quotes on the subject:

E.P. Sanders on the historical Jesus: “I am inclined to look for basic disagreement, beginning even with Jesus, as the source of the Jewish-Christian split …”

John Barclay on Paul: “Thus, mostly unwittingly, Paul fostered the fateful division between Christianity and Judaism.”

Ernst Haenchen on Luke: “we are listening to the voice of a man of the sub-apostolic age. For such a person, Christianity and Judaism had already drifted apart.”

Martin Hengel on Luke: “By depicting the Jewish Christians, including Paul, as essentially faithful to the law, Luke – against the historical situation of his time – is trying to say that the Christians are the true Israel and that the break with Judaism (i.e. with the community organized in the synagogue congregations of the Diaspora) was not caused by Christians, but by Jews (Acts 28.26ff.). The Christians had not left the synagogues of their own accord but had been driven out of them by force.”