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While academic writing can be obscure and popular writing can be uncritical, this group of experts have striven to write as simply and clearly as possible on several hotly contested topics in biblical studies. The essays are arranged around the historical figures and canonical texts that matter most to Christian communities and whose interpretation has fed the negative characteristics of Jews and Judaism.

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Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisputed thing we know about him: his crucifixion. Rome reserved this means of execution particularly for political insurrectionists, and the Roman charge posted at the head of the cross indicted Jesus for claiming to be King of the Jews. To reconstruct the Jesus who provoked this punishment, F...

The author explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new Introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus.