{"id":942,"date":"2013-06-29T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/truthsyoucanuse\/?p=942"},"modified":"2013-06-29T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:53:24","slug":"what-christians-should-know-about-the-jewish-background-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truthsyoucanuse\/2013\/06\/what-christians-should-know-about-the-jewish-background-of-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"What Christians Should Know About the Jewish Background of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Following up on the popularity of this<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/truthsyoucanuse\/2013\/06\/5-rabbis-explain-jesus.html\" target=\"_blank\"> piece<\/a> on how five rabbis understand Jesus, I&#8217;m including a snippet from a recent lecture I gave on the Jewish background of Jesus. The full lecture will soon be available on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbimoffic.com\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts, and let me know if I should add anything!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2xXtZ8sAMuI\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-950\" alt=\"jews and jesus\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/341\/2013\/06\/sddefault-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/truthsyoucanuse\/files\/2013\/06\/evan1.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Following up on the popularity of this piece on how five rabbis understand Jesus, I&#8217;m including a snippet from a recent lecture I gave on the Jewish background of Jesus. The full lecture will soon be available on my website.\u00a0I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts, and let me know if I should add anything!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Christians Should Know About the Jewish Background of Jesus - Truths You Can Use<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truthsyoucanuse\/2013\/06\/what-christians-should-know-about-the-jewish-background-of-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Christians Should Know About the Jewish Background of Jesus - Truths You Can Use\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Friends, Following up on the popularity of this piece on how five rabbis understand Jesus, I&#8217;m including a snippet from a recent lecture I gave on the Jewish background of Jesus. 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