2012 book the jewish gospels the story of the jewish christ1 here he seeks to challenge the popular understanding of the first century jesus movement and thus the relationship between ancient jews and christians as most if not all of recent new testament scholarship has demonstrated few would dispute the. Whatever one makes of hurtados thesis an argument that the only innovation of early christians was their application of already prevalent binitarian notions of god to jesus should address hurtados work on early christian pietistic practice and its implications in some mannermore generally although boyarin named his book the jewish gospels the story of the jewish christ what we actually encounter is a collection of close readings of dan 7 and isa 53 from the perspective of one gospel . The jewish gospels the story of the jewish christ c 2012 by daniel boyarin foreword c 2012 by jack miles the new press 38 greene street new york ny 10013 published in the united states by the new press new york 2012 page 2 of them is one of many stunningly persuasive but utterly surprising readings of what in. The argument of the jewish gospels however is based firmly on earlier rather than later mystical and apocalyptic texts the result is a book as far in atmosphere as possible from the comparably engaging scholarly writings of geza vermes for whom jesus the jew became a divine christ through christian misunderstanding. The jewish gospels the story of the jewish christ the jewish gospels in july 2008 a front page story in the new york times reported on the discovery of an ancient hebrew tablet dating from