Giles Fraser and Amy-Jill Levine - Judaism & Christianity: Can we recover the Jewish Jesus?

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Jesus was a Jew. But has Christianity become divorced from its Jewish roots? How should we understand the shared story and differences of these two great religious traditions?Journalist-priest Rev Giles Fraser who has been on a journey to rediscover his Jewish roots, interacts with Jewish scholar Prof Amy-Jill Levine, who has written extensively on the Jesus and Judaism.For bonus content, updates and more shows sign up at http://www.thebigconversation.showTake our survey! https://unbelievable.memberstar.club/page/60f7107b74743d67c0628bd0/pXyVuFor Giles Fraser: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/213/213476/chosen/9780241003268.htmlFor Amy-Jill Levine: https://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/amy-jill-levineThe Big Conversation is a video series from Unbelievable? featuring world-class thinkers across the religious and non-religious community. Exploring science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. The Big Conversation is produced by Premier in partnership with John Templeton Foundation. • For exclusive resources and to support us: USA http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Rest of the World: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our regular Newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For more faith debates: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Brielly.
0:21.2	Well hello and welcome to this week's edition of Unbelievable with me Justin Brielly
0:25.0	and it's the sixth and final episode of our big conversation series from Unbelievable
0:30.2	on Judaism and Christianity today brought to you in partnership with the John Templeton
0:35.2	Foundation and a really interesting and lively interaction for you coming up.
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1:08.3	So without further ado welcome to this week's program.
1:16.8	Well today we're asking how do we recover the Jewishness of Jesus.
1:21.2	Jesus was a Jew but has modern Christianity become divorced from its Jewish roots and
1:26.7	can we recover the distinctly Jewish teachings of Jesus the Rabbi and how should we understand
1:32.4	the shared story and differences between these two great religious traditions.
1:38.9	Charles Fraser is Rector of St Mary's New England a well-known UK journalist and broadcaster
1:43.8	as well as a priest.
1:45.2	His recent book Chosen, Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism tells the story of
1:50.5	the personal crisis that followed his resignation from St Paul's Cathedral and the healing
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