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Author Boyarin, Daniel.

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

Imprint New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  296.396 B691j 2012    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 200 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography 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.
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.
Subject Jesus Christ -- Jewish interpretations.
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
ISBN 9781595584687 (hc. : alk. paper)
1595584684 (hc. : alk. paper)

 
    
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