00:00Hey, Shalom brothers and sisters, welcome back. I thank you again for joining me today.
00:04Today I want to do a nice little book review here. It's called How Jesus Became Christian by
00:11Barry Wilson. Book's right here. I read it and quite frankly it kind of worked my mind to death
00:21a little bit. A lot of regular Christians probably would disagree with this, but what I say is just
00:29give it a try. Let me tell you a little bit about the book here. First off, it was, let's
00:37see, copyright was 2008. 2008. Book's approximately 317 pages long. In the back it's got some,
00:51it's got index, notes, bibliography, things like that. The book is basically about how
01:05Yeshua became Christian. There was, there's a lot of, back in the day, there was a lot of
01:10groups. There's a lot of groups in Judaism. You had the Pharisees, the Sagittates, the Essenes,
01:17and you had the fourth philosophy, which was the Zealots during that time. And then you
01:22had Yeshua's brother, James, was the successor of the assembly, what you'd call the church
01:29in Jerusalem. He was the sole leader. And then comes along Paul. Now, the book here states
01:37that Paul's Christianity was different than James and Yeshua, the Yeshua's message. The message that
01:48James and, well, Yeshua and James had was, it was the message. And when it comes to Paul, it's turned
01:55around about the messenger and not the message. It was a, it wasn't the, you say the religion of
02:03Yeshua, but it would be the religion about Yeshua. Now, I find this book very interesting. In here,
02:13he says, uh, he refers to, uh, the book, uh, you know, the, how do you say it? Uh, the
02:21followers
02:22of the movement that, well, they, in this book, it's the Jesus movement was the James side of the
02:29faction. And then the Christ movement was Paul's Paul was possible to the Gentiles. And, uh, he
02:39quotes, you know, biblical, biblical, uh, evidence and things like that, or, and then a couple of
02:47times from different sources, like church history, things like that. But, uh, you might want to know,
02:51ask yourself, who is Barry Wilson? Let me try to read this to you about who he is. He is
02:57a professor
02:57of humanities and religious studies at York university in Toronto, uh, specialist in early
03:04Christian origins. This is his first book intended, uh, for a general audience, uh, building on
03:13contemporary critical scholarship. It addresses some of the major puzzles he has identified while
03:21teaching biblical studies over a 20 year period and award, uh, an award winning educator,
03:28his previous academic books, uh, focused on textual interpretations. So that's who he is. And
03:37I've got this book and I've got his other book. Uh, I'm going to read the other book sometime. I
03:43don't
03:43know if it's going to be after this or I got another book. I just picked up and I'm going
03:46to read that.
03:47And it's an interesting book, but I'll get to the other one. Uh, but this book doesn't have no
03:53footnotes at the bottom or anything. It's just got chapters. And, uh, like I said, no, no diagrams,
04:00no pictures, but this book, yeah, this book, I got this book off of amazon.com pretty, pretty cheap
04:07used. And it's a real good condition. If you look at it, it's a real, it's pages. Everything's intact.
04:13I don't even think there's any highlights or markers in this book so far that I, you know,
04:17I mean, I didn't see any, but this is a very good, interesting book. And I highly recommend you to
04:23get this book right here. It's what it's called. And, uh, he's got a, there was a couple of reviews
04:30he
04:30got, but I'm not going to read them, but I'll let you get this book and, uh, let you, uh,
04:38study it,
04:38look it over and hopefully let me know what you think about it. And if you've already had this
04:43book, read it, studied it, get in the comments, let, let me know what you think about this. But,
04:47uh, anyways, that's all I have to say right now. I don't think I'm forgetting anything, but,
04:53uh, anyways, that's it. Thank you very much. And Shabbat Shalom till we meet again. Bye.
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