Was Jesus a Jew? & What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?

[Jim]

The Biblical Archaeology Society published two
very interesting articles in its "Bible History Daily."

Was Jesus a Jew?

But Jesus was born in a Jewish home and lived in
the Jewish culture and in the land of Israel. Was
Jesus a Jew? Yes, Theological study is further
discovering the Jewish Jesus and what his
Jewishness means to Christian theology and
Jewish-Christian relations

What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?

To wrench Jesus out of his Jewish world destroys
Jesus and destroys Christianity, the religion that
grew out of his teachings. Even Jesus’ most familiar
role as Christ is a Jewish role. If Christians leave
the concrete realities of Jesus’ life and of the history
of Israel in favor of a mythic, universal, spiritual Jesus
and an otherworldly kingdom of God, they deny their
origins in Israel, their history, and the God who has
loved and protected Israel and the church. They cease
to interpret the actual Jesus sent by God and remake
him in their own image and likeness.

Read both articles at --
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/was-jesus-a-jew/?mqsc=E2924375
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