Posts Tagged: Jesus Jewish
Invention of the Christian Jesus by Renaissance Art, Hollywood, and Historians Proved Lethal for Jews
In the film "Resistance," the character who plays the French mime and Jewish resistance fighter Marcel Marceau gives his answer to the question of why people...
Thomas Jefferson: Christian or Jew?
How did Christianity get separated from Judaism, when the two religions have so much in common? That was the question pondered by three eminent scholars -- two Christian...
Some People Still Don’t Know That Jesus Was Jewish
When I tell people that I’ve written extensively about the "Jewish Jesus," they frequently say, “but everyone knows that Jesus was Jewish.” It would seem...
The Transformation of the Virgin Mary: How a Jewish Girl From Nazareth Became a Christian Icon
The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, provide skimpy biographies of Jesus, with huge time gaps. We meet Jesus in brief citations as a newborn, a six-year-old in...
Picturing the Jewish Jesus: Bill O’Reilly and the National Geographic Channel Get it Right
When I tuned in on March 29, 2015, for the National Geographic's film production Killing Jesus, adapted from Bill O'Reilly's book Killing Jesus, I was poised, pen...
Correcting Jesus’ Image in Christian Artwork
Painter and architect Rod Borghese and I conceived a triptych consisting of three images of Jesus based on the painting Christ in a Landscape by 16th-century...
Removing Jesus’ Jewish Identity From Artwork
In a strong statement that challenges the historic divide between Christianity and Judaism, Pope Francis recently proclaimed, "Inside every Christian is a Jew." But if...
Jewish Jesus in Renaissance Art and the Roots of Anti-Semitism
The public was surprised if not shocked by the recent revelation that the mother of the late Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor, Archbishop of New York...
Why Judaism Should Seek Converts
On Shavuot we read the story of Ruth, the Moabite convert, who has the most eloquent speech of the entire Bible: "Where you go I...
Jesus, Paul, and Others Saw Themselves as Jews
If you were accused of a crime punishable by death wouldn't you use your best defense? And if you believed that you didn't commit a...
Book: Infamous Nazi Goering Refused to Pray, Said Jesus Was ‘Just Another Smart Jew’ Shortly Before Dying
Nazi leader Hermann Goering, who went to trial at Nuremberg after World War II, refused to pray to Jesus before his death because he believed...
If Jesus Was a Jew, How Can the West Bank be Occupied?
Christians worldwide celebrate the birth of Jesus - the birth of a Jewish baby to a Jewish family living in Bethlehem. This man (Yeshu...
Artwork Can Help Heal the Jewish-Christian Divide
From its very beginnings, Christianity sought separation from Judaism. No small task since Christianity arose from Jewish prophesies and a connection to the Jewish Davidic...
Art Exhibit Corrects History and Helps Repair Jewish/Christian Relations
Rembrandt and the Images of Jesus, a 2011-2012 exhibit curated by the Louvre, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts presented artworks, primarily...
