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Matthew Hoffman, From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. 292. $ 60.00.

The subject of this volume is the appropriation of the person and message of Jesus the Jew by a variety of nineteenth--and twentieth-century Jewish writers and artists. This is a fascinating study for anyone interested in contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue; how...