That looks like a more interesting spelling of secks.
I should be reading my Humanities Chapters.... I think I'll write the first two and last sentence of each paragraph I read, like they said to do when skimming on the SAT.
Messianic belief in Jesus was largely consistent with Jewish apocalyptic nationalism, and it eventually thrived in small communities of Jews in Palestine and the eastern Greco-Roman world. In it's first decades, the new faith's most effective advocate was the apostle Paul, whose tireless travels and passionate letters to believers promised them imminent redemption at the hands of a risen Christ.
More importantly, he argued that non-Jews could join the faith without submitting to the male circumcision and dietary restrictions required by traditional Judaism.
