R. S. Sugirtharajah is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham.
A stimulating and provocative book that shows how Asians—like
people around the world—have been trying for centuries to make the
man from Galilee one of their own.
*New York Review of Books*
Splendid…A fascinating, half-forgotten intellectual journey which
is brought fully to life by Sugirtharajah’s painstaking
‘excavations of Asian resources.’
*Catholic Herald*
[An] excellent book…Sugirtharajah brings together some fascinating
parts of the global and perpetually expanding biography of
Jesus…Jesus in Asia deserves to be read widely.
*Christian Century*
Sugirtharajah’s detailed examination of…Asian treatments of Jesus
reveals a startling variety among them…[He] has admirably filled a
gap that most readers, including scholars specializing in the study
of Jesus, are not even aware of.
*Commonweal*
Sugirtharajah…opens up Jesus to an Asian outlook…His book will
constitute a revelation for most Christian readers…His book is a
pleasure to read.
*Times Higher Education*
[Sugirtharajah] has distilled his wide-ranging research and
thinking into an impressive volume.
*Christian Century*
Jesus in Asia is a marvelous achievement… Sugirtharajah presents an
equally elegant and unexpected portrait of a number of Jesuses
according to Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Jain, and Christian
traditions… Succeeds in correcting common misconceptions by
highlighting the important and overlooked contributions of Asian
writers on the historical Jesus.
*Horizons in Biblical Theology*
Makes for interesting and even provocative reading. Sugirtharajah
brings to light a number of marginalized biographies of Jesus—works
largely forgotten in both the East and the West.
*Choice*
Sugirtharajah maintains that Western scholars’ ‘quest for the
historical Jesus,’ has wrongly dismissed Eastern reconstructions as
parochial and lacking scientific objectivity. Sugirtharajah
counters with systematic and critical evaluations of Eastern
contributions to the life of Jesus that span from the seventh
century CE to the present day…A necessary corrective.
*Library Journal*
Sugirtharajah’s trenchant book will be useful to anyone looking for
an introduction to some of the many Asian representations of
Christ.
*Publishers Weekly*
Written by a distinguished scholar of Christianity and postcolonial
studies, Jesus in Asia broadens our historical memory and enlivens
our religious imagination. This book sharply contests the
historical quest of Jesus in the West, and is remarkable in its
broad historical and cultural reach—an invaluable recovery of Asian
representations of Jesus.
*Kwok Pui-lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist
Theology*
Jesus in Asia is an extraordinary gift. With great erudition,
Sugirtharajah illuminates a broad history of previously neglected
writings on Jesus, across many centuries and from diverse parts of
Asia, by Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Jain scholars. By placing
Jesus within Asian cultures and religions, this book offers a
necessary challenge to the isolationism of Western Jesus
studies.
*Halvor Moxnes, author of Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism: A
New Quest for the Nineteenth-Century Historical Jesus*
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