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Article: Hillel and Jesus: Comparative Studies of Two Major Religious Leaders
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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- March 1, 2000
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Hillel and Jesus: Comparative Studies of Two Major Religious Leaders. Edited by James H. Charlesworth and Loren L. Johns. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997, xxxi + 486 pp., $50.00.
This volume represents a number of essays presented at an international symposium in Jerusalem, June 1992, called by J. H. Charlesworth to treat the questions "How can we learn more about Hillel by comparing him with Jesus, and how can we learn more about Jesus by comparing him with Hillel" tp. xiii). With the historical-critical methodology at hand, both Jesus and Hillel are asserted to be real people, teachers in Israel who lived prior to the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 cE. Obviously, differences did ...