The volume also clarifies that not all Qumran commentaries are pesharim, and that there is a variety within them.
This book is an invitation to think about Jesus and his time. I invite you to consider with me why Jesus, like the founder of the Dead Sea Scrolls community, was rejected by the ruling priests in Jerusalem; and why and how Jesus' sayings and his self-understanding are now clearer thank to the recovery of a long "lost" gospel.
"As James H. Charlesworth points out in Jesus Within Judaism, we cannot understand Jesus, nor fully appreciate him, without knowing the times in which he lived and the culture in which his thoughts were formed. Drawing on a series of spectacular recent discoveries in archaeology and in the literature of the period, Charlesworth begins the scholarly process of filling a critical gap in our histo…
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