The beginnings of Christianity: A collection of articles Edited by Jack Pastor and Menachem Mor The twenty-two articles in this volume were presented at an international research conference on various aspects of the beginnings of Christianity conducted at the University of Tel Aviv and Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi in Jerusalem. The articles, written by prominent scholars in the field in the United States of America, Europe, and Israel, discuss subjects in methodology, emergent Christianity, Christian Messianology and its Jewish background, the relationship between early Christianity and Jewish society, Jewish law in the background of Christianity, the place of Judea in early Christian theory and practice, and the schism between early Christianity and Judaism. The volume is an important contribution to our knowledge of this central period in the history of Christianity. Jack Pastor is Chair of the Department of History of the Oranim Academic College of Education. Menachem Mor is Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Haifa.