ABSTRACT
One of the most prominent arguments for the supersession of the Old Covenant by a new one, is the Pauline theory of the freedom of the faith of Christ from the shackles of Jewish ceremonialism. For instance, one of the striking characteristics of the Jewish Scriptures is the severe treatment they accord to the people from which they emanate. In spite of the philosophical interpretations and theories of the Hellenistic and medieval Jewish thinkers, this purity has remained unimpaired. The religion formulated by Paul, which had considered the Torah of Moses as the greatest offence of Judaism, gradually adopted in its turn a considerable portion of the Jewish ceremonialism, and all the paraphernalia of pagan worship. In Judaism, the basis of the religion is the purest form of Monotheism, where the only doctrines concerning it are affirmations of the transcendent, ethical, and beneficent character of the Divinity.
