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Abstract

The paper attempts an examination of the significance of Jewish scripture and proselytism to early Christian missionary enterprise the Gentile nations. The paper is approached from a socio-historical perspective. Among other things, the research brings to the fore that the availability of Jewish scripture (which talks more about the promised Messiah) to the world in the Hellenistic language and the missionary spirit already at home in the first century Judaism which allowed the conversion of Gentiles to Jewish national religion, considerably combined to give the pioneering Christian missionaries the much success they recorded in the early Christian global mission. That if not for these two Hellenistic elements in Judaism, Christianity would probably not have achieved the much success recorded in its first attempt at global mission.