Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781634312134)

Was Jesus a mainstream or sectarian Jew, as the scholarly consensus tells us? This view--that we must automatically adopt Second Temple Judaism as the paradigm in which to interpret or reconstruct the historical Jesus--is often presented as self-evident, unquestionable, and beyond dispute. However, the promotion of the Jewish Jesus raises serious questions--specifically, whether this consensus is the product of theological and ecumenical agendas. In Judaizing Jesus, noted scholar Robert M. Price challenges this trend and offers a menu of alternative ways of seeing Jesus: Sacred King, Cynic Philosopher, Gnostic Redeemer, and...the Buddha He concludes by proposing a new theory of Christian origins to explain how and why the first Christians themselves Judaized Jesus.

Author: Robert M. Price
ISBN-10: 1634312139
ISBN-13: 9781634312134
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d