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"Paula Fredriksen draws on the narratives of all four evangelists as well as both John and the Synoptics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish authorities of Jesus' time - Philo, Paul, and Josephus - who wrote in Greek, and early rabbinic writings. She shows us a historical Jesus living in the tumultuous world of late-Second Temple Judaism: an observant Jew of his time, a prophetic teacher who traveled through the villages of Galilee and frequently in and around Jerusalem."--BOOK JACKET.
"At the center of her book she brings us to the questions raised by the least disputed fact about Jesus' life: his death."--BOOK JACKET. "Why was crucifixion chosen as the means of execution? If Jesus was executed as a political insurrectionist, why were none of his followers executed or even arrested?"--BOOK JACKET.
"The author's quest in search of the answers takes us through the religious world - Jewish and pagan - of Mediterranean antiquity, through the tangle of Judean and Galilean politics, and through the surprisingly intimate social interactions of Jewish and gentile communities in the ancient city.
And it is through the Gospel of John - a text out of favor in most academic reconstructions - that she finds the answer to the interpretive dilemma posed by Jesus' execution and his disciples' survival."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
December 5, 2000, Vintage
Paperback
in English
- Vintage Books edition
0679767460 9780679767466
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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
November 23, 1999, Knopf
Hardcover
in English
0679446753 9780679446750
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