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Article: Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus-Story.(Book Review)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
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- March 22, 2006
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Jesus, A Jewish Galilean: A new Reading of the Jesus-Story. By Sean Freyne. London, UK: T&T Clark, 2004. Pp. xiii + 212. Paper, $24.95.
This book is a welcome contribution to historical Jesus scholarship from one of the deans of contemporary Galilee studies. Two earlier books by the author focused respectively on historical Galilee and Galilee within the canonical Gospels.
Freyne here takes a "long view" of the subject. By this, he means relating his thinking about Jesus of Nazareth to traditions of the Hebrew Bible. He is critical of what he sees as an over-emphasis in contemporary work on the criterion of dissimilarity, and prefers instead Cerd ...