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fully free themselves from established pagan beliefs. As a result, the son of
God acquired a pagan, as opposed to a traditional Jewish, meaning.
In The Historical Figure of Jesus, Sanders interprets the methods em-
ployed by the first Christians to spread the message of Prophet Jesus
(pbuh):
In trying to convince others, they sometimes told stories of things
that Jesus had said and done. In the early years this material was
probably not written, but was simply passed on orally. When the
disciples used incidents from Jesus' life, they wanted to illustrate
points, points that were important at the time… Besides wining new
adherents, the disciples also instructed one another and their grow-
ing number of converts by recalling incidents from Jesus' life.
Sometimes they debated with Jewish teachers who rejected Jesus;
these disputes provided a third context in which material from and
about Jesus was employed. 72