The Symbolic Jesus: Historical Scholarship, Judaism and the Construction of Comtemporary Identity (Religion in Culture: Studies in Social Contest and Construction Series)
This volume addresses the current scholarly controversies that have erupted in the last 20 or so years over the implications of the Judaism of Jesus. Since the early 1970s, a surprising number if historical Jesus scholars have been insisting with increasing shrillness that Jesus was a Jew, and that this fact has significant implications for how one reconstructs the figure of Jesus out of the portraits in ancient Christian literature. While both Christianity itself and New Testament...
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When Arnal (religious studies, U. of Regina, Saskatchewan) was invited to write a short paper for a 2003 symposium at the University of Toronto, he ended up with 129 pages, enough for a slim book, which found its niche in the publisher's Religion in Culture series. His topics range from 19th-century anti-Semites to contemporary battles over the value of apocryphal texts. Although most of the book was written before its release, Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ serves to introduce some of Arnal's themes in the first chapter, which is titled "Mad Mel and the Cultural Prominence of Jesus." The book is distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
