History of Christianity

Articles & Essays

The Revolt That Rewrote the Church — Tony Smith, Prepared Heart, 18/04/2026. The Bar Kokhba Revolt (135 AD) proved more consequential than the Temple’s destruction (70 AD): Jewish Christians were expelled from Jewish communities, Gentiles took over the Jerusalem church, and the plain-sense Jewish hermeneutic was replaced by Alexandrian allegorical methods (Philo, Clement, Origen). This shift enabled replacement theology and corrupted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries — and explains why modern biblical disagreements are rooted in foundational interpretive assumptions, not just methodology.