Jesus

A Christography in Four Faces, Pars Prima

Last year I began but did not finish a series with a piece entitled “Iesous Christos: Messianism Between Jews and Christians, Ancient and Modern.” In it I made the case for what the most basic shape of the earliest kerygma about Jesus was among his intra-Jewish followers, and considered some historical contrafactuals that might seem, on the basis of wha…