Yes, as I understand it - Paul/Saul had some sort of stroke or fit on the way to Damascus. At that point he began preaching Christianity instead of persecuting it. However, Paul also began proclaiming himself an apostle, declared that he was talking directly to Jesus/God, and made up a whole pile of stuff that did not go over well with the Christian sect lurking around the Temple, led by Jesus brother James. Some of Paul’s epistles contain insults and veiled warnings about how the people back in Jerusalem were trying to undercut his teachings. During a showdown in Jerusalem it was agreed that Paul’s gentile converts did not have to adopt Jewish rituals - basically the real apostles told him he could do and say what he wanted with the gentiles provided he didn’t mislead the Jews, who really mattered. The Jerusalem church was more focused on converting Jews to their sect. By the time the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, Paul’s churches in the eastern Empire had gotten so large that his version became the dominant version of Christianity - but it wasn’t really a Jewish religion any more.
Nobody said the intertwining was Judaism coming from Christianity, but obviously the other way around. And again, what typical nominal Jews or Christians now know is irrelevant, likewise the implied theme of your earlier post that Jews you know now who reject a connection between the religions must be right because they are Jewish. It doesn’t work that way.
Paul preached that you didn’t have to be a Jew to be a Christian, in the again obvious context that in the decades after the Crucifixion* the early church was significantly or mainly composed of Jews.
Nor can we can ignore the constant references to Jewish scripture, Jewish factionalism (the Pharisees etc) and Jewish life in general in the writings said to describe the teachings of Jesus without which a lot of them can’t really be understood. It again just seems strangely obtuse even for the internet to try to deny that basic connection.
Obviously Christianity, and Judaism also separately, evolved further after the first century when the religion of followers of Jesus came to be fully distinct from Judaism. But that again doesn’t mean the two aren’t closely connected which they obviously are.
*as believed to have occurred; like every other such point in this debate the exact historical accuracy isn’t at issue, unless one believes Paul wasn’t really writing anywhere near the time generally accepted.
In England, a ‘samaritan’ is understood to be a volunteer on a suicide prevention helpline.
So, clearly they think it works as a name for people doing good deeds.
It may be different in jolly ol’ England but here the key is the word ‘good’. Saying She’s a Samaritan would not go very far - and in this politically charged climate may be seen as some a a negative, but if the word good Samaritan was used everybunny would know what is meant. Here is the decrepit, stolen from the natives, land of the US of A, there is such a thing as a good Samaritan law which insulates people from law suits for trying to do the righteous stuff in helping others.
Rivkah has some…issues on this topic.
But to further **CorryEl’**s excellent posts, Saul preached to gentiles. He was also hardly the only Jewish preachers in that era to do so. At that time and for nearly a century before Judaism had a large proselytizing faction (which incidentally annoyed the Romans), and at times at swordpoint. Modern day Judaism from what I have seen tends to avoid the whole concept.
Its not totally clear exactly when, why and where Judaism and Christianity split. But at the time when Jesus preached and the parable in question was written, it would be very literally accurate to say “Judeo-Christian”. Might not be accurate to describe the whole history since then as such (I don’t think it is) but the era in question? Absolutely.
You know, if I had to see which religion were more “Hellenic” than I would come down on the side of modern Judaism. While Rabbanic Judaism did bitterly oppose Hellenic Judaism, the culture of scholarship and study was highly influenced by Hellenism and one which for the most part did not exist before old Alex showed up.