Some of my reading of late has been on a rash of new books of high quality on so-called Jewish Christianity. One huge volume called James The Brother of Jesus (Robert Eisenman) is a staggering 1000 pages of information about the historical brother of Jesus, and the interesting thing to start with is that whilst we don?t have any extant historical information about Jesus, there is a wealth of extant historical material available about his brother. My brother John described this book as ?one of the most life-changing books I have ever read? ? and disturbing too I might add.

Going back 20 years, my best known piece of writing it seems even by a casual survey on Google seems to be Sabbatarianism Re-examined. The central point of this whole thesis was the research I had done on Jewish and Gentile Christianity. The rest was only a side issue. A certain Cardinal Danielou had written the pathfinding modern research on Jewish Christianity in two monumental volumes ? his worked proved the foundation of a lot to come on the division and tensions on the early Jesus movement between these two wings that very quickly morphed into two entirely different religions.

The seriousness of the tensions between James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul have been papered over with the help of the Book of Acts, although even that author gives up the real confession when he describes the confrontation of James and Paul on Paul?s last visit to JERUSALEM which marks the final break between the two ?gospels? of Jesus ? and two very different and irreconcilable portrayals of who Jesus really was. The evidence now points to Paul?s opponents featured in 2 Corinthians whom Paul reacts vehemently against were the chief apostles and leaders of the Jerusalem Church ? James and co apparently believed that missionaries to the scattered regions of the world should carry Letters from James to verify that they were kosher evangelists representing the genuine and original apostolic church ? and Paul quite savagely attacks the idea that he should carry any Letters to back his status.

Anyhow, what I am about ready to do is write up a brief digest of the differences between the two kinds of gospels, churches, interpretations of Jesus ? one according to Jewish Christianity and the other according to Pauline and Gentile Christianity. We must also remember that that NT on the whole, written in Greek, is written by Gentile Christians, it was written well after Paul but written for the most part from a Pauline bias ? but then developed further than Paul.

To start with Jewish Christianity had a Davidic Messiah who was to rule in and from Jerusalem.

The Greek messiah of Gentile Christianity was very different kind of (Cosmic) Messiah.