Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

was a Jew.... To be a follower of Jesus, you don't
have to leave Judaism and become a Christian. To
be a follower of Jesus, you have to live Jewish life
the way that Jesus taught people to live Jewish
life.... Paul says that there's the Gospel and
there's the [Mosaic] Law; that's Paul's polemic,
that's somewhere else.
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, City of God
(2000): I will say here of Jesus, that Jew, and the
system in his name, what a monstrous trick history
has played on him.... Christianity was originally a
Jewish sect. Everybody knows that.... Paul— you
know, Paul. Fellow had that stroke on the road to
Damascus?.... Then what? In this case, a new
religion.
Daniel Boyarin, ‘The Gospel of the Memra’,
Harvard Theological Review (2001): For [the
Gospel of] John,... Jesus comes to fulfill the
mission of Moses, not to displace it. The Torah
simply needed a better exegete, the Logos
Ensarkos, a fitting teacher for flesh and blood.
Rather than supersession in the explicitly temporal
sense within which Paul inscribes it, John's
typology of Torah and Logos Incarnate is more
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