Jewish-Christian Interpretation of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Clementine HomiliesThe pseudo Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second or third century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile majority, law free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's interest here is in the highly unusual theory expressed in the Homilies that the Pentateuch is saturated with false pericopes, and that the teaching of