How is it possible that Jesus lived totally within Judaism and at the same time was the origin of a movement that separated from it? “The purpose of this book,” writes Ed Parish Sanders, “is to investigate two interrelated questions about Jesus: his purpose and his relationships to his contemporaries in Judaism. These two questions immediately lead us to two others: the cause of his death (did his intentions imply such an opposition to Judaism that it would lead to his death?) and the impulse that motivated the rise of Christianity (did it originate in a historical confrontation between Jesus and Judaism the split between the Christian movement and the latter?)».
Sanders carefully recapitulates the extensive literature on the historical Jesus and makes a critical and solidly documented reading of his relationship with the Judaism of his time, beginning with the eschatology of Je...read more
