No matter what we would make of Jesus, says Schalom Ben-Chorin, he
was first a Jewish man in a Jewish land. Brother Jesus leads us
through the twists and turns of history to reveal the figure who
extends a "brotherly hand" to the author as a fellow Jew.
Ben-Chorin's reach is astounding as he moves easily between
literature, law, etymology, psychology, and theology to recover
"Jesus' picture from the Christian overpainting." A commanding
scholar of the historical Jesus who also devoted his life to
widening Jewish-Christian dialogue, Ben-Chorin ranges across such
events as the wedding at Cana, the Last Supper, and the crucifixion
to reveal, in contemporary Christianity, traces of the Jewish codes
and customs in which Jesus was immersed. Not only do we see how and
why these events also resonate with Jews, but we are brought closer
to Christianity in its primitive state: radical, directionless,
even pagan. Early in his book, Ben-Chorin writes, "the belief of
Jesus unifies us, but the belief in Jesus divides us." It is the
kind of paradox from which arise endless questions or, as
Ben-Chorin would have it, endless opportunities for Jews and
Christians to come together for meaningful, mutual discovery.
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