Are we to say then that Judaism of the Hellenistic period had taken significantly different forms, each having points that were important to it an questionable to the others, and that one set of important points and beliefs developed fairly logically into the Jesus Movement and then into Christianity, much to the regret of others which were to develop into post-Temple Judaism? That might mean that the Movement began because the Ways had already parted, set to run sometimes parallel, sometimes divergent?
Are we to say then that Judaism of the Hellenistic period had taken significantly different forms, each having points that were important to it an questionable to the others, and that one set of important points and beliefs developed fairly logically into the Jesus Movement and then into Christianity, much to the regret of others which were to develop into post-Temple Judaism? That might mean that the Movement began because the Ways had already parted, set to run sometimes parallel, sometimes divergent?