Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004), scholar
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Hyam Maccoby (1924-2004) was a Jewish-British scholar.
Biography
Professor at the Leo Baeck Institute in London and at the Center of Jewish Studies of the University of Leeds. Editor of the Jewish Quarterly. Looked at Jesus as an orthodox Jew, while saw in the Hellenized Paul the true founder of Christianity.
Works
Books
- Revolution in Judea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance (London 1973)
- The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (New York 1986)
- Judaism in the First Century (Sheldon 1989)
- Paul and Hellenism (London 1991)
- Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil (New York 1992)
- Jesus the Pharisee (London 2003)