Jesus the Central Jew

In this book LaCocque presents the case that Jesus was totally and unquestionably a Jew. He lived as a Jew thought as a Jew debated as a Jew acted as a Jew and died as a Jew. He was not a Jew marginally but centrally. He had no intention of creating a new religion; rather he was a reformer of the Judaism of his day. True his critique went far beyond an intellectual subversion. In fact Jesus progressively thought of himself as the Son of Man inaugurating the advent of the Kingdom of God on earth. LaCocque writes not about Christianity or Christology. Instead the book purposely addresses restricted sources namely the Synoptic Gospels to contribute to the modern understanding of the historical-as opposed to the mythical or the real-Jesus.