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Who Was Jesus?
Who am I to write on this topic? I’m certainly not among the many scholars, Jewish and Christian, who have tried to reconstruct the cultural surround – the assumptions, references and experiences – that made up the atmosphere Jesus took … Continue reading →
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Tagged Christian Biblical scholars, Christian New Testament scholars, Christmas Eve and pogroms, failure in life, gospels vs. Paul's Epistles, historical Jesus vs. Christian doctrine, Jesus, Jesus and end times, Jesus and God's Kingdom, Jesus and Jewish memory, Jesus and overcoming death, Jesus and overcoming Jewish/Christian barriers, Jesus and surmounting time and space, Jesus and transcending history, Jesus as divine field of force, Jesus as messiah, Jesus assesses his results, Jesus at the Last Supper, Jesus back home, Jesus rating his accomplishments, Jesus vs. Paul's Epistles, Jesus' original teaching, Jesus' sense of failure, Jesus' teaching vs Christian doctrine, Jesus' view of his accomplishments, Jesus' view of history, Jewish Biblical scholars, Jewish New Testament scholars, John P. Meier's A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Oct 7th and atrocity-envy, Oct 7th and world anti-semitism, Paul's quarrel with early apostles, pogroms, pogroms in the name of Jesus, success in life, the historical Jesus, the historical Jesus vs. Ecclesiastical Christ
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Jews, Christians, and Jesus
Jews, Christians, and Jesus I’ve just finished a scholarly book whose conclusion left me head-spinningly dumbfounded. Since I’m supposed to be a philosophe by profession, I’m pretty used to scholarly books, bring some acquired insulation to the reading of them, … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancient fratricide, anti-Judaism, anti-semitism, attraction to Jesus, “the Son of Man”, Babylonian exile, Bar Kochba, biblical history, biblical Israel, Christian/Jewish dialogue, Christian/Jewish parting of the ways, colloquial Hebrew, Council of Nicea, Daniel 7, Daniel Boyarin’s The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ, defamation, Emmanuel Levinas, fratricidal history, Hebrew language revival, history of Christianity, inter-religious dialougue, intercession for sin, Isaiah 53, Israel reborn, Israelite continuities, Jack Miles’s God: A Biography, Jesus as divine, Jewish continuities, Jewish origin of Christianity, Jewish/Christian reconcilement, Jews and Christians, Jews and Jesus, legendary figure, literary Hebrew, messianic expectations, new anti-Semitism, Nicene Creed, professional philosopher, promised land, rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinic scholars, Rav Tsair, religious persecution, revelation and religion, scholarly book, Second Temple's destruction, Suffering Servant, Talmudist of stature, The Covenant, the forgiveness of sin, the historical Jesus, the Holocaust, the Jesus movement, the Second Exile, vicarious expiation, vilification
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