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What Would Jesus the Jew Do?

How Jewish do Jewish people think Jesus was?

Season 1, Ep. 3

A new podcast exploring key questions that will help readers of the New Testament to better understand Judaism at the time of Jesus. In each episode, scholars from the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester talk listeners through a topic.


In this episode we think about the Jewishness of Jesus from the perspective of Jews today. 


https://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/wwjjd3


Presented by Professor Daniel Langton


Produced by Dr Siobhán Jolley and Professor Daniel Langton for the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester

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