{"id":11957,"date":"2012-12-31T07:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:49:23","slug":"the-jewishness-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/the-jewishness-of-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jewishness of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"Several posts related to the Jewishness of Jesus have appeared on blogs I read over the past couple of days.<\/p>\n

Anthony Le Donne has the first post in a series<\/a> asking what it means to say that Jesus was Jewish.<\/p>\n

Joseph Hoffmann provides a list<\/a> of things that the New Testament says about Jesus which are not<\/em> myths. He also makes a new year\u2019s resolution:<\/p>\n

My semi-sincere New Year\u2019s resolution for 2013 is to be nicer to the mythicists, because their conclusions are not their fault. After all, they are simply piecing together the stammering indecision, deconstruction, conspiracy-theories, and half-baked analogies of a hundred years of uncongealed scholarship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lawrence Schiffmann shared a video<\/a> in which he and other scholars discuss the topic:<\/p>\n

Watch From Jesus to Christ: Panel Discussion<\/a> on PBS. See more from Station Promos.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can watch the entire PBS documentary \u201cFrom Jesus to Christ\u201d online, including on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several posts related to the Jewishness of Jesus have appeared on blogs I read over the past couple of days. Anthony Le Donne has the first post in a series asking what it means to say that Jesus was Jewish. Joseph Hoffmann provides a list of things that the New Testament says about Jesus which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,152,64],"tags":[4646,5677,5706,5978,7853],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-jesus","category-judaism-religion","category-mythicism","tag-historical","tag-jesus","tag-jewish","tag-judaism-religion","tag-mythicism"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Jewishness of Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several posts related to the Jewishness of Jesus have appeared on blogs I read over the past couple of days. 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