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The New Testament testifies to self-designations and self-conceptions of early groups of Christ believers. They understand themselves as “the way”, “ekklesia”, (part of the) “people of God”, “God’s temple” or addressees of God’s covenant. But how are these self-conceptions related to an overarching concept of Israel? Paradigmatic texts imply that they are used on the level of competing groups or define the conviction of belonging to God’s people, but are not meant to exclude others from or substitute Israel as God’s people.
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