‘No one denies Jesus’ Judaism, yet it is bitterly contested’.1 Ever since Géza Vermès’ Jesus the Jew and E.P. Sanders’ Jesus and Judaism,2 there has been a concerted and self-conscious effort to escape the theological supersessionism and lurking anti-Semitism that infected previous generations of scholarship on Jesus, which programmatically opposed Jesus to ‘Judaism’, the Torah’, and ‘Jewish religion’, denigrating—even demonizing—these in the process. At least part of the impetus for the renewed
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