It helps us understand Israel's God as the end product of familiar cultural processes, processes of convergence We see convergences of cultures all the time--and differentiation.

它帮助我们了解以色列的上帝,它作为相似文化过程的最终产品，集合的过程,我们一直能看到文化的融合，及保留差异。

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So what's going on is taking what is a unity, and pulling apart that unity to see the diversity of this early Christian movement and these documents.

所以我们要做的是把一个整体，拆分开，看看早期基督教运动的差异,及这些文本。

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