This volume addresses the current scholarly controversies that have erupted in the last 20 or so years over the implications of the Judaism of Jesus.
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| Author | ARNAL WILLIAM |
| Pub Date | 01/03/2005 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Pages | 128 |
It is widely accepted that Jesus was a Jew. However, both Christian and New Testament scholarship have a strong anti-Jewish history. 'The Symbolic Jesus' presents the controversies surrounding the Jewishness of Jesus. It examines the insistence among historical Jesus scholars that Jesus was a Jew and the ways this frames the figure of Jesus in ancient Christian literature. The book examines the anti-Jewish legacy of the past and more recent approaches to biblical scholarship. Contemporary identity issues - scholarly, political, religious and cultural - are shown to lie at the heart of the debate.
