Galilean Jewishness of Jesus

Analyzing the Galilean Jewishness of Jesus As Christianity begins to grow by the millions, its origin begins to be misinterpreted day by day. Even though many follow Jesus as their savior many also are not well informed of his roots and his culture. Before Jesus became the person that we all read about in the Bible followed by masses of people and preaching the Good News, he was a person who knew he had to learn about his culture before actually coming out to the world. In this book, The Galilean Jewishness of Jesus the author Bernard J. Lee talks about “retrieving [the] Galilean Jewishness.” This means that he wants us to be aware of Jesus’ origin and geography in order for us to better understand our relationship with him and his origins. In the following paragraphs I will be talking about how we need to understand the true origins of Jesus and how by understanding this it will make us understand our religion better as well as other’s religion. Years have passed by since Jesus last walked on this earth and even though we have writings and stories about him these stories have simply been told by word of mouth and therefore modified from its original story. This has its own downfalls such as, us not having any exact records of Jesus’ teachings because all his teachings have been amended one way or another. One of the points that the author was talking about is that we need to comprehend what Jesus’ original words essentially came from. This he called the “quest of the historical Jesus.” Though the process of “word of mouth” gave us the scriptures we all know, many things can be misinterpreted from this practice. The Good News was translated from Aramaic to Greek and so on, thus the loss of exactness in the scriptures. In order to understand Jesus’ Jewishness better the book focuses greatly in geography. This is important in explaining the Jewishness and Greek influence of Jesus. Even though Jesus is called by many, Jesus of Nazareth, he was actually born in