Table of Contents

Introduction 1. A Jewish Reader of Jesus: Mark, the Evangelist 2. The Magical Jesus in Ancient Jewish Literature 3. Where is Jonah from? 4. Celsus’ Jew and the Theological Threat from Christianity 5. Abraham Abulafia: A Kabbalist "Son of God" on Jesus and Christianity 6. From Joshua through Jesus to Simeon bar Yohai: Towards a Typology of Galilean Heroes 7. The Salvation of Jesus and Jewish Messiahs 8. Jacob Frank and Jesus Christ 9. "Christus secundum spiritum": Spinoza, Jesus and the Infinite Intellect 10. Harry Austryn Wolfson on the Jews’ Reclamation of Jesus 11. Jesus in Modern Jewish Thought 12. The Crucified Brother: Uri Zvi Greenberg and Jesus 13. ‘We left Yeshu’: On Three Twentieth Century Hebrew Poets’ Longing for Jesus" 14. Jesus of the Sabra Thorns - The Figure of Jesus in Israeli Art

About the Author

Neta Stahl is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Center and Jewish Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She works primarily in the fields of Literary Theory and Modern Hebrew Literature, and has serious interest in the intersection of religion and literature, theories of the Other, and modern Jewish thought.