Judaizing Jesus: How New Testament Scholars Created the Ecumenical Golem

By Robert M. Price

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1634312139
• ISBN13: 9781634312134
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"