Christianity Quote by R.T. France

The thing that intrigues me about Matthew is that I don't believe anybody would read it if they aren't Jewish and understand it. And…

— John Shelby Spong

“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his…

— Anonymous

“Jesus’s words are too familiar, too domesticated, too stripped of their initial edginess and urgency. Only when heard through first-century Jewish ears can their…

— Amy-Jill Levine

“Going back to Moses Maimonides, he considers Jesus that prophet who was authorized by God to prepare the heathen world (as Messiah for the…

— Sandor Goodhart

“At the time that the early Gospels were written, the Pharisees and the early Christians were competing for the hearts and minds of their…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against…

— Reza Aslan

“It's interesting how Christians today completely ignore the four clear verses of Jesus saying his message is for Jews only, and they prefer to…

— Peter B. Lockhart

“There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.”

— David D. Flowers

“In these centuries when God,...was forging a Christian church so that it might fulfill the longing of a hungry world, He was at the…

— James A. Michener

“The Babylonian Jews in the Sasanian Empire, living in a non-Christian and even progressively anti-Christian environment, could easily take up, and continue, the discourse…

— Peter Schäfer

“There exists hardly any other New Testament text that is more unambiguous and firm in Jesus’ mission on earth and his divine origin, indeed…

— Peter Schäfer