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> posing as a continuation, while the previous revelations are then discarded.

Can't the same argument be raise for Christianity? I'm sure at the time of Jesus he saw himself as rectifying Jewish practice (and of course there are the passages where he says that the old laws are still in force), but pretty quickly Christianity was modified and sold to gentiles (thanks to Paul, who never met Jesus and wrote 13* of the 27 books of the New Testament) and the Mosaic laws were mostly set aside.

The whole idea of "fulfillment theology" is that Jesus fulfilled the old covenant and established a new law. That is why Christians eat pork and so on.

* everyone agrees that three of those 13 weren't actually written by Paul, and three more are in various degrees of doubt

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Christianity does largely embrace the previous revelations still, even if they don’t follow most of the regulations. Listen to any AM radio station preacher and you’re bound to hear about the 10 commandments, the psalms, etc. They have various degrees of reinterpretation but the original content is still widely used and promoted. In contrast Islam seems to only tangentially refer to the Tanakh or the New Testament and reading them is not encouraged AFAICT. Islam did however borrow many practices from both.

I’d argue that in some ways Rabbinical Judaism is as divergent as Christianity from ancient Judaism in many ways. There’s no following of the temple sacrifices or rites, etc, so new traditions have been added. The central role of Israel as a physical country changed for many (much early Zionism was viewed dimly by religious Jews and primarily embraced by secular Jews). The Talmud is roughly in a similar position as the New Testament, etc. I say that as an academic exercise in parallels and not to demean the differences or history. I just find the thought exercise intriguing.

one example is that Passover (Pesach – פסח) may have included a ritual sacrifice in days before the modern format.

Even in the four scriptures Jesus makes it pretty clear several times that the chosen people are first but they will refuse and salvation will be passed onto others. E.g. the address to Jews when he healed a (gentile) centurion's servant [Matthew 8:10-12]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&ver...

Jungian here - with some small comparative religion training.. multiple primary "motiff" in the Christian stories are repeats of older themes but changed..

for the non-Bible side, lots of Germanic and Scandinavian folk stories have been rewritten as Christian-themes too

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