Year 8 - RE - Jewish Life of Jesus: Jewish life of Jesus

One of the certain facts about Jesus was that he was a Jew. He was a child of Jewish parents, brought up in a Jewish home and reared among Jewish traditions. Throughout his life, Jesus lived among Jews and his followers were Jews.

A Jew talks about encountering Jesus and recognising the Jewishness of Jesus

This article from the Guardian looks at how Christians have whitewashed over the Jewishness of Jesus.

Have a look halfway down this page and you can encounter the Jewish peers of Jesus and find out about what they did.

Yeshua, or you may call Him Jesus, was constantly getting challenged and nitpicked by a few groups. Two of those groups were the Pharisees and the Scribes--but who were they? Let's find out!

This article from Britannica looks at what Judaism looked like in the time of Jesus and shows the first references to Jesus in written texts.

The New Testament can often seem strange or even offensive to Jews, but with a better understanding of the texts as Jewish literature about Jesus the Jew, both Jews and Christians can gain an appreciation of its deep Jewish context.

How did Judaism begin and what are the Jewish beliefs? Information gathered by the United Religions Inititiave.