Jesus Reclaimed
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
Jesus Reclaimed
Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene
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Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781800732100
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 01/11/2021
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.
Foreword
Leonard Swidler
Translator’s Preface
Ingrid Shafer
Preface
Introduction: The Life of Jesus according to the Sources
- The Sources
- The Early Years
- Public Appearance
- Jesus’s Message
- Arrest and Trial
- Death
Chapter 1. Jewish Images of Jesus prior to the Early Modern Period
- Jesus in the Mishnah and Talmud
- The Toldot Yeshu
- Rabbinic Polemics against Jesus
- Christian Talmud Criticism and Censorship
Chapter 2. The Historical Jesus since the Early Modern Period
- Jesus and the Jewish Enlightenment
- The Christian Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Departure from Dogma
- The Jewish Quest of the Historical Jesus as Repatriation of Jesus to Judaism
- The Berlin Anti-Semitism Debate
- The “Jesus Scandal” around Max Liebermann
- Leo Baeck and Adolf von Harnack: The Controversy
Chapter 3. The Jewish Quest of Jesus
- From Joseph Klausner to Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich
Chapter 4. Joseph Ratzinger and the Jewish Jesus
- That Jesus Was a Jew: A Cultural Coincidence?
- The “Rabbi Jesus”: For Christians Only as Important as Christ?
- “Reading the Whole Bible in the Light of Christ”: Joseph Ratzinger’s Hermeneutics
- Christian Faith and “Historical Reason”
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
