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I like Adam Green and think Christcuckery is generally cringe, but the whole
>Jesus was a jew, your book is jewish, etc
is based entirely on modern misconceptions about religion, deliberate mistranslations, and biblical literalism.
The samaritans believed in the exact same "religion" as the jews, yet were identified by them as gentiles. Galilee, where Jesus AND his parents were form was called a gentile nation. It was only incorporated into Judea under Herod and the Romans. Identifying everyone in the region as "Iudean" (jewish) was also a Greco-Roman understanding of the Levant, not one that actually reflected cultural identities.
So you have a guy who was NOT from Judea (only latter gospels identify Jesus' birthplace as Bethlehem, but this is clearly to tie him to prophecy and regardless, there is also another Bethlehem in Galilee), in fact he was from NORTH of Samaria in an area the jews at the time explicitly identified as a gentile nation (jews also call Jesus himself a samaritan in John 8:48).
You have Jesus and his followers never really identifying themselves as jews (why would they, they weren't from Judea) unless "Iudean" is used in the sense of "from the Levant" as the Greeks and Romans use it. His followers called themselves "Israelites" (historically the term for Samaritans) "Nazorenes" and "Galileans", but never "Iudeans".
And you have the fact that there was no jewish" "religion" as we would understand it in the modern sense (the Talmud didn't exist at this point and wouldn't for hundreds of years). Jesus also put himself in OPPOSITION of the Judean's "religion". From it's conception, his followers were opposed to the orthodoxy of the priests.
I'll also point to scholars like Gmirkin et al. who have shown the Levant was completely Hellenized by this point anyway, the fact Jesus quotes from apocryphal and non-judean texts, as well as the fact that Christianity is clearly an offshoot of Neoplatonic thought, etc. It's not really "jewish"
