Rabbinic Attitudes

In the Talmud and midrash, the comparatively few references to Christianity (these only appear in uncensored versions) are
to this religion as a heretical sect believing in a form of dualism, God the Father and God the Son.

Typical is the comment

of the late third-century Palestinian teacher, Rabbi Abbahu, on the verse (Isaiah 44:6): I am the first, and I am the last, and
beside Me there is no God. As Rabbi Abbahu spells it out: I am the first, for I have no father; and I am the last, for I have
no son, and beside Me there is no God, for I have no brother. Since the doctrine of the Trinity did not emerge fully until a
later period, there are no references to this doctrine in the Talmud or midrash, despite far-fetched attempts to find hints of it
in these sources.
It was not until the Middle Ages that the status of Christianity (and of Islam) as a rival religion was considered from the
Jewish point of view.