Publication

2015 - SBL Press, Atlanta, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

84,250 words, Guess

Page Count

337 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101628371110
  • ISBN-101628371129
  • ISBN-139781628371116
  • ISBN-139781628371130
  • ISBN-139781628371123
and 5 more

Classifications

  • DDC232
  • LCCBT590.J8 L33 2015
  • LCCBT590

Description

In this book, LaCocque presents the case that Jesus was totally and unquestionably a Jew. He lived as a Jew, thought as a Jew, debated as a Jew, and died as a Jew. He was not a Jew marginally, but centrally. He had no intention of creating a new religion; rather, he was a reformer of the Judaism of his day whose critique went far beyond an intellectual subversion. In fact, Jesus progressively thought of himself as the "Son of Man" inaugurating the advent of the kingdom of God on earth. LaCocque writes not about Christianity or Christology. Instead, the book purposely addresses both restricted sources (the Synoptic Gospels) and numerous other sources of information, leaving no stone unturned, to contribute to the modern understanding of the historical--as opposed to the mythical or the "real"--Jesus. (back cover).

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Society of Biblical Literature. Early Christianity and its literature -- number 15
  • Early Christianity and its literature -- no. 15.

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