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From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture / Matthew Hoffman.

Matthew Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Franklin & Marshall College.

Publisher's blurb:

From Rebel to Rabbi establishes how the changes that occurred in Jewish culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries stimulated a widespread fascination with the figure of Jesus and with Christian motifs among numerous Jewish theologians, historians, intellectuals, writers, and artists. It illustrates how and why the process of modernization for these Jews involved a radical reevaluation of Jesus of Nazareth. This book analyzes works of Jewish history, theology, Yiddish literature, Jewish visual art, and intellectual debates, in an attempt to situate this phenomenon within the broader context of a cultural history of how Jews have related to and depicted the figure of Jesus in the modern period. It suggests that for writers and artists, such as Sholem Asch and Marc Chagall, refiguring Jesus as intrinsically Jewish and using Christian themes to express aspects of the modern Jewish experience were an integral part of creating a new and distinctive modern Jewish culture.

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Amazon link. This is, strictly speaking, outside the purview of this forum, since it is about modern Jews reacting to the Christian figure of Jesus, primarily, it seems, as a cultural or artistic figure.

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There is significant discussion of scholarly endeavors:

From Martin Buber to Geza Vermes and Samuel Sandmel, there have been Jewish thinkers, scholars, and rabbis who have continued to view Jesus in a positive light, as a Jew and a brother, whose teachings originate in the Judaism of his times, and who is still relevant to the contemporary Jew in some way or other.--p. 256