Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Judaism in the Time of Jesus.
Part II: Jesus of Nazareth: Charismatic Religious Virtuoso.
Part III: The Road to Golgotha.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Irving M. Zeitlin is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a leading authority on the sociology of religion. His many books include The Historical Muhammad, Jesus and the Judaism of His Time and Ancient Judaism.
'A tour de force, an intellectual feat of great distinction.'
Arnold Age s, University of Waterloo
'An important addition to the scholarship of the most critical
period in the formation of what has come to be called the
'Judeo-Christian heritage'. It will be of great interest to general
readers.' St Louis Jewish Light
'Zeitlin has digested a great deal of scholarly material and
imparts it with brevity and clarity.' Canadian Jewish News
'A well-written project with many other admirable features' Toronto
Journal of Theology
'Admirable in its clarity, its clean, direct, unpretentious style,
and its careful arrangement.' Contemporary Sociology
'Zeitlin offers Christians the opportunity to rise to the challenge
of understanding the gospels from a Jewish perspective,
historically based, while returning to the basics of the faith of
the church in their simplest expressions, i.e., the expressions of
the gospel accounts themselves. 'Didaskalia
‘How Jewish was Jesus? Did he consider himself the Messiah? Why was
he executed by the Romans as a political rebel? What did Jesus
really think about the Sabbath, dietary laws, and the idea of
divorce? How did Paul misinterpret Jesus’ major concepts? How did
the early church separate form Judaism? These are some of the
contentious and complex questions that Irving M. Zeitlin, professor
of Sociology at the University of Toronto, examines in this concise
and scholarly study. The author reviews Jesus’ life and teaching in
relation to his social milieu and historical period. His method is
sociological and proves to be a fruitful approach to problems,
questions and issues that have been discussed by scholars over the
centuries.’ Canadian Jewish News
‘…a tour de force, an intellectual feat of great distinction.’
Arnold Ages, University of Waterloo
‘… an important addition to the scholarship of the most critical
period in the formation of what has come to be called the
“Judeo-Christian heritage”. It will be a great value to serious
scholars and a great interest to general readers.’ St. Louis Jewish
Light
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