The Symbolic Jesus
Historical Scholarship, Judaism and the Construction of Contemporary Identity| By: | William E. Arnal |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781845530075 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781317324393 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2005 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.