The Jewish Gospels the story of the Jewish Christ

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.

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Main Author: Boyarin, Daniel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.
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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.
Physical Description:xxiii, 200 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781595584687 (hc. : alk. paper)
1595584684 (hc. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Daniel Boyarin , Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. His books include A Radical Jew , Border Lines , and Socrates and the Fat Rabbis . He lives in Berkeley, California.