“Scholars who have argued that early Christians were influenced by Stoic thought miss a key link…”

Scholars who have argued that early Christians were influenced by Stoic thought miss a key link: early Christians were influenced by contemporary Jewish thought, which, a century or two centuries earlier, had already been profoundly affected by Stoic thinking.

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich, “The Origins of Jewish Universalism: What it is, and Why it Matters”, Lehrhaus (6 October 2016) [http://www.thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/jewish-universalism]