In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Jesus’ indigeneity was inseparable from a Jewish calendar tied to agricultural and pilgrimage cycles, Hebrew and Aramaic as ...

Among my fellow Jews, there is much misinformation and “fake news” about the Jewish Jesus, starting with my deceased parents. During Christmas time, a few years before my mother passed, I told her ...

The controversy over Mel Gibson’s upcoming film about the death of Jesus has spurred painful exchanges between Jews and Christians and progressive and traditional Catholics in recent days. To date, ...

MELBOURNE -- There is no cross at Kol Mashiach Synagogue. "People think they'll come in here, and suddenly we'll produce one from the back room," said Messianic Rabbi Alan Levine, the spiritual leader ...

The Hebrew name יהושע yehoshuaʿ,* was pronounced yeshu in Galilee; becoming Iesus or Jesus in Greek-Latin. The form Yeshu was probably common among the Jews at that time, but was discontinued ...

In this article, Clive Lawton looks at Jesus and Christianity from his personal viewpoint as a Jew. My first encounter with Jesus was in primary school Nativity plays. Teachers desperately - kindly - ...