Boyarin, Daniel

The Jewish Gospels : the story of the Jewish Christ / Daniel Boyarin - New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012 - xxiii, 200 p. ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

9781595584687 (hc. : alk. paper) 1595584684 (hc. : alk. paper)

2011034643


Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations


Bible.--New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish

BM620 / .B69 2012

296.39 / B789J