Jesus and Judaism

Jesus and Judaism is a 1985 book by E. P. Sanders, published by Fortress Press. The book sets out to examine Jesus' intention and his relationship to his Jewish contemporaries, based primarily on analysis of his actions rather than the sayings attributed to him. Sanders argues that Jesus is best understood within the framework of Jewish restoration eschatology, that his action in the Jerusalem Temple symbolically announced the Temple's destruction and eschatological replacement, and that he offered inclusion in the Kingdom to the wicked without demanding repentance in its conventionally understood form. The work extends the concept of "covenantal nomism" developed in Sanders' earlier book on Paul the Apostle, applying it to Jesus.