From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

by Matthew Hoffman

From Rebel to Rabbi establishes how the changes that occurred in Jewish culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stimulated a widespread fascination with the figure of Jesus and with Christian motifs among numerous Jewish theologians, historians, intellectuals, writers, and artists. It illustrates how and why the process of modernization for these Jews involved a radical reevaluation of Jesus of Nazareth. This book analyzes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753717
• ISBN13: 9780804753715
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.0"