I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some
readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment
of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings
of the nature and formative, growth processes
of the earliest
groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian
groups, or started as
mixed Jewish / Gentile
groups (as via Paul, et al.).