Description: A revisionist history of the split between Jews and Christians and the role of Paul in fostering animosity between them.
Review Quotes: After a lifetime of reflection on Paul and his Jewish connections, John Gager gives us, in this extraordinarily lucid and accessible book, a portrait of the Jewish Paul. Within the early Church there were Christians who saw Jews not as enemies but as friends, and Gager argues that this stance derives from Paul. A provocative book, which rescues Paul from the charge of anti-semitism.--Shaye J. D. Cohen, Harvard University