Jesus

"Flusser is not only brilliant, and thoroughly familiar with all classical sources, Jewish sources, and later Christian sources that bear on our understanding of Jesus; he is also passionately concerned that the historical Jesus be taken seriously. He readily admits that he, an observant Jew, personally identifies himself with the worldview of Jesus, both moral and political: 'The content of his teachings and approach of Jesus has the potential to change the world and prevent the greatest part of evil and suffering.' For years I have been recommended it as the best book on Jesus available. No better way to discover the Jewishness of Jesus and possible links to Qumran than to read this book." - William Klassen, Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, April 1999

"David Flusser's Jesus, a work by an accomplished Jewish scholar which throws a good deal of light on the historical figure in his Jewish context." - A letter in The New York Review of Books, Volume 14, No. 1 & 2