dvunkannon
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| Quote (Dr.GH @ May 03 2011,09:44) | There seems little reason not to think that there was some Rabbi named Yeshua ben Yoseph who got caught up in the then raging social and religious debates in 1st century Jerusalem- and killed by the Romans. That event did nothing to abate the internal conflicts between Jewish political factions and externally with the Romans. A generation later, an opportunist named Saul organizes a new religion out of the post 70AD revolution rubble, one that leans heavily on a convenient martyr. A few centuries later, the fragmentation of Rome's frontier added more politics, and new theologies.
Falk, Harvey
1985 “Jesus the Pharisee” New York: Paulist Press
Funk, Robert W., Roy W. Hover, The Jesus Seminar
1993 "The Five Gospels: What did Jesus really say?" New York: Scribner
Jenkins, Philip
2010 “Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years” New York: HarperCollins
Maccoby, Hyam
1986 "The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity" San Francisco: HarperCollins/Barnes and Noble
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2003 “Jesus the Pharisee” London: SCM Press |
I'd throw in a few other of Maccoby's books, Revolution in Judea, and Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil, as good reads. They aren't heavyweight academic writing by any means, but make excellent points. SGF Brandon's older (1967) and more academic Jesus and the Zealots also gives more texture to the fractured and politicized Jewish religous background of 1st century Palestine.
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