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Jesus, Judaism and Early Christianity
(Jesus at 2000 series)

VHS
75 minutes
BT303.2 .J531 1996

27th National Conference of Trinity Institute 1996
Alan Segal, a Jewish scholar, who has written extensively on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the first century, sets forth a portrait of Jesus that conflicts substantially with those of Borg and Crossan. Using the complicated criteria of dissimilarity or embarrassment to distinguish what is or is not historically true, Segal argues that Jesus was apocalyptic, that he actually predicted that the end was near. He also contends with Borg and Crossan on two other features of Jesus thought. He takes issue with the proposition that Jesus was a cynic philosopher. And he argues that Jesus was not as opposed to contemporary purity practices as Marcus Borg believes.

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