_Jesus the Jew_ (1977)
A shift in viewpoint motivated in part by the need to acknowledge the
Holocaust

Importance to early Friends of hearing the living Word of God.
The bible is a _witness_ to the Word, not the Word itself.

[Samuel Fisher]

Ordinary people struglling to make sense of and recount something
inspiring, but complicated.

[start with detox, e.g. wrt "God", "Jesus", "sin"]

*Mark*

Passionate, angry, active, _urgent_

Jesus recognised as a prophet

His mother and his brothers come to take him in charge

Not always clear that it's not a _bad_ spirit moving the prophets...

Surrounded by conflict and misunderstanding

Recording the memories of Peter?
(Matthew and Luke tidying up Mark...)

Strong reactions, strong emotions, sometimes even fear and worry

*Matthew*

Sometimes making editorial decisions (redacting the family coming to
take him in charge), but trying to be faithful to [Mark]

Friction emerging between the the Jewish Christians and the wider
Jewish community, which is beleaguered.

After the year 65 rebellion and the destruction of the Temple

How do we live the Law w/o the Temple?  When we're scattered?

A King like David, a teacher like Moses.

TA: 5:48 Not 'perfect', but all-embracing  [but c.f. Fox]

Not so much _Kingdom_ of God as a place, but the _reign_ of God as a
way of being.

"there in the midst" -- c.f. two or three are gathered _studying the
Torah_ God is there...

23:27-28 is a fierce statement from one side of the struggle mentioned
above [TA: Matthew's words, not Jesus's]

28:17 "Some doubted" -- TA: the experience was in some way not
objective---powerful, but not quite unequivocal.