[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I can understand why the Talmudic scholar would want to believe this "theory". Is it what you believe?

Great question!

No, I don't believe it... The "Talmudic scholar" worships a golden calf, turning his back on the Laws of Moses, like so many have done since Moses went to stand in the presence of God to recieve His Commnandments.

This is why we have liberal leftist Jews, they worship the golden calf and are the same elements among the Judaic who demanded crucifiction of Yeshua...

[A. Pole]

BTW, if Saint Paul was Hellenized so were the all Jews for at least three centuries before him. And so were the other peoples in the Mediterranean world.

Jews were formed by the Greek culture and earlier they were formed by the Babylonian/Persian culture and earlier by the Egyptians. It was the part of God's plan Who used the gifts/achievements of every nation to reveal Himself to the Mankind.

To better understand the context in which the Church was established one should to read the latest books of Old Testament - the ones removed by the rabbis after the split with the Christians (no surprise here) and followed by Luther and Calvin (they could not "reform" the Christianity otherwise). These books are called sometimes deuterocanonical (or falsely apocryphal as there are others which indeed deserve this name.)

These books are preserved in the Catholic and Orthodox versions of the Old Testament.