| Authors: |
Boyarin, Daniel.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Jesus Christ -- Jewish interpretations.
Bible.N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012. |
| Description: |
xxiii, 200 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781595584687 1595584684 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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| 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. |