Book review: The Prince and the Emperors
From the blog of Ben Rothke at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Ben Rothke at The Times of Israel
From the blog of Daniel Sayani at The Times of Israel
by Stephanie SanHamel In 1960, Norman Cousins, former editor of Saturday Review, wrote, “There is every reason for Judaism to lose its reluctance toward Jesus. His own towering spiritual presence is a projection of Judaism, not a repudiation of it.”1 Yet decades later, Jesus still remains an enigma – the Jewish man who claimed to be Messiah, Lord and God, resulting in billions of people following him and calling themselves Christians. So, what was Jesus’ religion? The simple answer is: Judaism. Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher of Judaism. He taught about the kingdom of God, he taught ethi...