From Jesus to Paul

by Joseph Klausner

Reviews (from rear cover): * "The whole of this reconstruction of the past is as much a contribution to Christian as to Jewish thinking....The position stated by Dr. Klausner will never be accepted by the worldwide brotherhood of faith and worship which honors Jesus as the Saviour of the world. On the other hand, Dr. Klausner, in his turn, inflexibly dismisses this challenging claim as a later, a gradual surging within the human mind." - The New York Times * "The historical picture, painted by Dr. Klausner, of religious and social conditions in the Roman Empire at the time of Paul is of the highest value and can hardly be surpassed....Moreover, the volume is one of the most important contemporary indications of how Christianity appears to many liberal Jews." - Religious Book Club Bulletin * "The great value of Dr. Klausner's work lies in his intimate knowledge of Judaism and his penetrating analysis of the environmental factors of early Christianity. It is also valuable to have a picture of Paul by one who shares his Jewishness but is out of sympathy with the central core of his message. This book will not replace our Christian interpretation of Paul, but it will help greatly in clarifying our conception of the apostle." - Christian Century * "[Klausner] writes, with a scholar's depth and a prophet's passion, of issues which are never for him bloodless abstractions, and the result is a piece of religious history as well as a study of religious history." - Harvard Divinity School Bulletin

Paperback

First published January 1, 1943

About the author

Joseph Gedaliah Klausner (יוסף גדליה קלוזנר‎) was a Jewish scholar. His family later moved to Odessa, Ukraine where he was educated. He was a professor of Hebrew literature and a devote Zionist. He died in 1958 in Israel.

Reviews

[Nathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alright, so the guy was kind of a zionist, but this was brilliant scholarship on the conditions that led to the spread of the cult that rocked the planet.