This essay focuses on the work of a Jewish scholar of Christianity, Joseph Klausner, who did his work at the beginning of the twentieth century. More broadly, it examines what I consider to be the symbiotic relationship between New Testament scholarship, or, more precisely, scholarship about Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Beginning with the Enlightenment, many scholars and theologians, both Jewish and Christian, have ...