All Jews Should Read the New Testament

[Jim Myers]

All Jews should read the New Testament. As paradoxical as it sounds, it will make us better Jews, just as the study of the New Testament — which we did in preparation for our book — has made us better Jews. . . Study of the New Testament does more than provide information on painful texts. It also reveals the rich diversity of late Second Temple Judaism, a diversity that gave rise to both rabbinic Judaism and the Christian Church. In studying the New Testament and understanding how it came to take shape in its historical context, we also recover Jewish history. 

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