Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem

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
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781634312134
ISBN10: 1634312139
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History
- Religion | Biblical Studies | New Testament | Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
- Religion | Christian Theology | Christology

About the Author
Robert M. Price is the host of the podcasts The Bible Geek and The Human Bible, as well as the author of many books. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism.