[SoothingDave]

That is clever. Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact. Why do you figure that would happen?

Wouldn't someone learn very early on, even if they were attracted by the "Greek-like" name, that Jesus was in fact, and by necessity, Jewish?

SD

[Invincibly Ignorant]

That is clever. Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact. Why do you figure that would happen?

I know alot of people who believe Jesus was a jew and yet still loathe the rest of them.

Wouldn't someone learn very early on, even if they were attracted by the "Greek-like" name, that Jesus was in fact, and by necessity, Jewish?

See above.

[malakhi]

Of course, for a people who "loathed" Jews, they managed to retain all of the narratives and identiy of Jesus as a Jew intact.

There are plenty of examples of anti-Jewish rhetoric in the Christian scriptures. Almost as if a philosemitic core of material was written down and edited from a very different viewpoint.

Remember, the gospels were written after Paul's epistles.