... we are going to determine how Jews and Christians relate and unearth the genesis of Anti-Judaism, we need to live in the then. The authors of Jesus, Judaism and Christian Anti-Judaism send a powerful message to their colleagues and students that, when attempting exegesis, they should NOT live in the now. E.P. Sanders asserts that some of his colleagues who have interpreted the Synoptic Gospels' Jesus to be anti-Jewish are in reality only displaying their own anti-ancient characteristics. In effect, they live in and love 'the now' so much that they read their (somewhat scornful) opinions of ancient activities into their interpretations. Sanders writes, "what [the scholars] want is for Jesus to have been a modern man who spoke directly to modern concerns and who had sloughed off ancient superstitions and other mistaken views" (35). Sanders proves that Jesus was not an ageless mystic man who ignored common practices, but a ...

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