Utterly fresh and innovative.
Thiessen summons his reader to nothing less than a radical reimagining of Christian origins.
-- Paula Fredriksen , Review of Biblical Literature Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels often present him as opposed to Jewish law and customs--especially when considering his numerous encounters with the ritually impure.
Matthew Thiessen corrects this popular misconcept.
Baker Academic Jesus and the forces of death: the gospels' portrayal of ritual impurity within first-century judaism, paperback/matthew thiessen
