I want to start some notes regarding connections between modern Jewish biblical scholarship and modern Christian biblical scholarship.
It seems to me that one can learn some things about the historical Jesus, which at least might turn out to be highly likely, by using modern Jewish biblical scholarship.
Unfortunately, I know nothing almost about Palestine history regarding those 400 years, 400 BCE and 4 CE, and very little about either Christian or Jewish biblical scholarship.
Further, it is almost too complicated for me to explain.
So what I suggest is that anyone interested in this subject first read R E Friedman, Who Wrote The Bible?, and only then read, and read it into, E P Sanders' account, The Historical Figure Of Jesus, and then draw what implications occur to you from first having read Friedman.
Someone out there may see what I mean here.
Certainly Sanders had been unwilling or unable to use the kind of material in Friedman's account to shed any light whatsoever on the historical Jesus. That fact, itself, may come as something of a shock.
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