Brother Jesus: The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes

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I wonder if anyone here has read this book? I've skimmed through but not finished it.

I ask because Burton Mack says of it:

"This is a precious book. We see a Jewish intellectual deconstructing the Christian gospels in his quest to reconstruct his brother Jesus. It is also a poignant book. For though he knew that the gospels were Christian myth, they were the only texts he had. His pursuit of historical truth despite the mystifications of the texts reveals the no-nonsense logic of an exceptionally well-trained mind in a relentless struggle with German scholarship. And in the end, by an amazing control of historical imagination, Ben-Chorin does catch sight of his non-Christian Jewish brother. Some will celebrate this book as the excellent translation of a most readable classic on the historical Jesus. But it is more. It is a moving documentation of a little-known chapter of cultural and intellectual history. It should be read as a meditation on the civility and skill of a German-Jewish scholar in pre- and post-holocaust debate with the Christian mind."--Burton L. Mack

and from what I read on this forum Burton Mack is thought of well. Unfortunately I have not yet been able to get to his works.

The other sub-text of my interest in all this is that the book Mack seems so fond of was translated by Jared Klein, a professor at UGA who was involved in the Georgia Guidestones.

Pulling on some loose threads here . . .