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As a Christian Priest I cannot recommend this book enough. It is one of the best pieces of interfaith Edifications I have ever had the pleasure to read, and re-read.Rabbi Zaslow approaches Jesus in an unbiased and truthfully honest way. He can do this with total perfection because of two great but forgotten reasons, firstly Jesus like the author was a practising Jew who was devoted heart and soul to his faith, he was also like the author a Rabbi teaching from the wealth of the Torah and Oral Traditions.This book gives us a beautiful tapestry that is the historical Jesus and sets him against an accurate back cloth of life and times. It hands us back the Hebrew Scriptures as Jesus loved them, not as something to be forgotten or defunct but as real and necessary today as they were to Jesus then.This book is enlightening, deep, thoughtful and a blessing if read as it was written with a contrite heart, an open spirit and with love.The disciples and those who heard Jesus in his day would have sat at his feet with the same open heart and listened to their Rabbi. While reading this book I too sat at the feet of Rabbi Zaslow and listened. Thank God I did!The Revd. Timothy Baker Jews and Christians share a common history but disagree on its import. We share a common scripture but dispute its meanings. Jesus lived and died a Jew, but his message inspired a new tradition. Jesus: First Century Rabbi gracefully examines the life and times of Jesus through a Jewish lens and helps us appreciate the points of meeting.Rabbi David Zaslow goes back to basics: what the text says, what key words mean, and conditions in first-century Judea. He analyzes concepts such as faith and works, the Trinity, and more to suggest ways in which common ideas found divergent expressions in the two traditions, noting the distinctive expressions of each tradition.I was particularly impressed by Zaslow's final section, in which he addresses anti-Semitism and replacement theology. He asks Christian readers to consider how certain statements might be heard by Jewish listeners and notes that many Christian leaders have stepped away from a confrontational stance. Zaslow reminds us that they story of Jesus has its roots within the Jewish world.Zaslow calls on both Jews and Christians to hear anew the story of the other. He asserts that by acknowleding the other, we can both be stronger. It is this optimistic message that characterizes this useful and interesting book.Rabbi Louis A. Rieser, Congregational Libraries Today 2014

As a Christian Priest I cannot recommend this book enough. It is one of the best pieces of interfaith Edifications I have ever had the pleasure to read, and re-read.Rabbi Zaslow approaches Jesus in an unbiased and truthfully honest way. He can do this with total perfection because of two great but forgotten reasons, firstly Jesus like the author was a practising Jew who was devoted heart and soul to his faith, he was also like the author a Rabbi teaching from the wealth of the Torah and Oral Traditions.This book gives us a beautiful tapestry that is the historical Jesus and sets him against an accurate back cloth of life and times. It hands us back the Hebrew Scriptures as Jesus loved them, not as something to be forgotten or defunct but as real and necessary today as they were to Jesus then.This book is enlightening, deep, thoughtful and a blessing if read as it was written with a contrite heart, an open spirit and with love.The disciples and those who heard Jesus in his day would have sat at his feet with the same open heart and listened to their Rabbi. While reading this book I too sat at the feet of Rabbi Zaslow and listened. Thank God I did!The Revd. Timothy Baker Jews and Christians share a common history but disagree on its import. We share a common scripture but dispute its meanings. Jesus lived and died a Jew, but his message inspired a new tradition. Jesus: First Century Rabbi gracefully examines the life and times of Jesus through a Jewish lens and helps us appreciate the points of meeting.Rabbi David Zaslow goes back to basics: what the text says, what key words mean, and conditions in first-century Judea. He analyzes concepts such as faith and works, the Trinity, and more to suggest ways in which common ideas found divergent expressions in the two traditions, noting the distinctive expressions of each tradition.I was particularly impressed by Zaslow's final section, in which he addresses anti-Semitism and replacement theology. He asks Christian readers to consider how certain statements might be heard by Jewish listeners and notes that many Christian leaders have stepped away from a confrontational stance. Zaslow reminds us that they story of Jesus has its roots within the Jewish world.Zaslow calls on both Jews and Christians to hear anew the story of the other. He asserts that by acknowleding the other, we can both be stronger. It is this optimistic message that characterizes this useful and interesting book.Rabbi Louis A. Rieser, Congregational Libraries Today 2014

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Rabbi David Zaslow, M.S., is the spiritual leader of Havurah Shir Hadash, a synagogue in Ashland, Oregon. He is the editor of the bestselling Hebrew/English prayerbook for spiritual Renewal, Ivdu et Hashem B'simcha - Serve the Holy One With Joy. He travels the country leading workshops with churches and synagogues on the Jewish roots of Christianity.

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