Jesus as Rabbi Scholar Jaroslav Pelikan examines the changing perceptions of Jesus' role as a Jewish rabbi and teacher. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries, (Yale ...

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Jesus, right? Wrong. So writes Rabbi Evan Moffic, ... Beginning in the late 19th century, there was a push in Christian scholarship to contextualize Jesus within first-century Palestine.

No first century secular evidence whatsoever exists to support the actuality of Yeshua ben Yosef. In the words of Bart Ehrman: “What sorts of things do pagan authors from the time of Jesus have ...

The Talmud contains the conversations other rabbis like Jesus were having during the first century. It is a record of the various debates, and contains stories very similar to those Jesus taught.

It so rocked their world and crushed their expectations that they went into deep denial to the point of believing that Jesus really rose ... How the Death of a 20th Century Rabbi Helps Demonstrate ...

Christianity purports to follow a first-century rabbi who was convicted, jailed, and sentenced to die at the hands of the state beside two other convicted felons. Here's why it matters.

Even if one accepts that there was a real Jesus of Nazareth, the question has little practical meaning: Regardless of whether ...

But to set Jesus thoroughly in his Jewish, apocalyptic, first-century world makes him seem irrelevant today. Many people assume the only things that are "relevant" are great truths hanging in mid ...

This is, to be clear, accurate; Jesus was, after all, a first-century Jew. He lived in a Jewish society, as did his followers, and their Judaism would have informed every part of their lives.