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...hill outside Jerusalem, a carpenter from Nazareth, condemned by the Roman Procurator of Judea and the high priest of the Jews, died upon a cross. Four historians of the time soberly reported that he was buried, and that on the third day the carpenter, Jesus, rose from the dead. Since that first Easter, his followers have defied all reason to proclaim that the Jew of Nazareth was the Son of God, who, by dying for man's sin, reconciled the world to its Creator and returned to life in his glory. Christianity has always been content to stand...
Jesus was a Jew. This rudimentary fact about the Son of Man is often overlooked by Christians, who are habitually prone to emphasize the differences rather than the similarities between their religion and Judaism. In Jesus of Nazareth: The Hidden Years (Morrow; $4), French Historian Robert Aron, who is a Jew, tries to show how deep was the influence of Israel and its religion on Jesus during his formative years. Aron's discursive, imaginative biographical essay has been praised by such Christians as France's President Charles de Gaulle (a Roman Catholic) and Albert Schweitzer (a Protestant...
Between the time the Holy Family settled in Nazareth and Christ's baptism at the age of 30, the New Testament records only one incident in the life of Jesus: his visit, at the age of twelve, to the Temple in Jerusalem, where he spent three days in conversation with the rabbis, astounding them with his learning. But Aron argues that Jesus was presumably brought up like any other boy of Biblical times; by understanding the nature of that childhood training, Christians can better understand the human personality of the man they worship...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...
Never was a victory more infamous and an aggression more callous. Coming from Mr. Nehru, the greatest protagonist of unilateral goodness and peace next to Jesus of Nazareth, this is the height of paradox...