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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyarin, Daniel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : 2012.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Jewish interpretations.
Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Jesus Christ.
Bible. > N.T. > Criticism.
Description
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 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781595584687 (hc. : alk. paper)
1595584684 (hc. : alk. paper)