The Jewish Gospels

In this powerful work, Daniel Boyarin challenges conventional views by showing that concepts like a divine Messiah, including a suffering 'Son of Man,' were already present in ancient Jewish texts such as Daniel, Enoch, and others long before Jesus.

He argues that Jesus was embraced by many Jews as this Messiah, his teachings aligned with Jewish law like Torah and kosher practices, and early followers were simply Jewish.

Christianity as a separate religion developed later through political and religious impositions, not as a break from Judaism during Jesus's time.