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From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture » (1)

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Authors: Matthew Hoffman
ISBN-13: 9780804753715, ISBN-10: 0804753717
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: 1

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Author Biography: Matthew Hoffman

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

Book Synopsis

This book examines the ways modern Jewish thinkers, writers, and artists appropriated the figure of Jesus as part of the process of creating modern Jewish culture.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Jesus and the Jewish Question     1
The Quest for the Jewish Jesus     13
The Crucifix Question     61
Yiddish Modernism and the Landscape of the Cross     117
The Passion of Jewish History     170
The Artist Crucified     206
Epilogue: The Jesus Question Revisited     252
Notes     257
Index     285

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