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tion. 39If the early date of ad86 for the ?rst Christian activity in China is con?rmedit will probably indicate – what might have been sus- pected anywaythe even earlier presence of Judaismfor the Church generally began by grasping the coattails of the synagogue before turning to the Gentiles. Consequentlythe Christianity which will have reached China by ad86 will have been Semitic rather than Greek in languageand may still have adhered to the law. Jewish communities certainly existed in Persia in post-exilic Old Testament timesand from them later Zoroastrianism borrowed the doctrine of a messiahjust as it borrowed a stricter dualism from Manichaeism. These communities were of a pre-Christian Judaic kind: that ismes- sianic expectation was still highand rabbinic orthodoxytannaitic or amoraiticwas not yet established. It was natural then that Christian missionaries should use them as stepping-stones to China. When such Jewish communities ?rst reached China is not clear. An inscription in the K’ai-feng synagogue dated 1663 claimed that the religion had been in China since Chouthat is preimperialtimes before 221bc. This is not impossiblebut the tradition recorded by a Je yilai: uggs outlet christian louboutin outlet http://leetstreams.com/profile_blogs/yixian005/&action=view&id=195240christian louboutins |
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