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The Jewish Gospels : the story of the Jewish Christ / Daniel Boyarin.

Van Pelt Library BM620 .B69 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Boyarin, Daniel.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.
Jesus Christ.
Jewish interpretations.
Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ.
Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible.
Bible. New Testament.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 200 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.
Summary:
Makes the powerful case that the conventional understandings of Jesus and the origins of Christianity are wrong: that Jesus' core teachings were not a break from Jewish beliefs and that Jesus was embraced by many Jews as the Messiah of the ancient Jewish texts.
Contents:
From son of God to son of man
The son of man in First Enoch and Fourth Ezra: other Jewish messiahs of the first century
Jesus kept kosher
The suffering Christ as a midrash on Daniel
Epilogue: the Jewish Gospel.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781595584687
1595584684
OCLC:
701019569

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