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The Birth of Jesus the Jew: Midrash and the Infancy Gospels
by Peter Keenan
“The New Testament defies all attempts to easily categorise it. What the unwitting reader requires is an experienced, thoughtful guide to its richness and complexity. Peter Keenan fits the bill. In sharing his wisdom, he makes an important contribution to the Jesus debate.” – Peter Stanford, Former Editor of The Catholic Herald
The Birth of Jesus the Jew is a short introduction to how the Jewish literary genre of ‘Midrash’ has shaped the infancy stories in the two canonical Gospels and some apocryphal works. It argues that these important faith testimonies are not ‘history’ in the sense that we tend to understand that term – Jesus, for example, was almost certainly born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem.
The situating of his birth in Bethlehem is a theological, not historical, statement. Similarly, the infamous account of Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents never took place. It is a Midrash derived from the account in the ‘Old Testament’ of Pharaoh’s attempt to kill the baby Moses.
When we read these stories through the lens of ‘Jewish eyes’, we are better able to appreciate their meaning both for the Jewish-Christians of the first century and for Christians living now. This slim volume is a contribution to encouraging further Jewish-Christian dialogue against the background of the long shadows cast by the Holocaust.
ISBN: 9781782183822
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Date of Publication: 04/10/2021
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