Believe It or Not, Jesus Was a Good Jew

Jesus of Nazareth is history's most famous carpenter, but he is also, according to one poll history's most famous Jew. He was born to Jewish parents, was circumcised, went to (the) Temple, attended synagogue, and read the Torah. See, he's a first century middle eastern Jew. Nearly 2,000 years of Christianity, however, have presented Jesus as something else: as a religious innovator who was not just in conflict with Jewish authorities, but was actively trying to overturn and replace Judaism. A new book seeks to challenge this misunderstanding and argues that Jesus wasn't just ethnically Jewish, he was an active supporter of Jewish religious laws.