Jesus as an historical Jew. (religious figure)
From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought
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Date: 6/22/1997
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Author: Wolf, Arnold Jacob
Nobody has quite been able to reconcile the Jesus of history who was born in Israel and lived and died there as a Jew and the Christ of faith. The issue of just who Jesus truly was has been raised time and again through the centuries, and is once more a topic of interest in the 1990s. The Jews have largely ignored Jesus Christ and have even vilified him in some cases. A translation of the Alenu prayer which climaxes the Jewish worship service, however, provides an illuminating insight as to who ...
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