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