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Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. By Susannah Heschel. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii + 314 pp. $48.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
In this lucid and compelling account, Susannah Heschel analyzes the treatment afforded Jesus and early Christianity more generally in the scholarship of Abraham Geiber (1810-1874), best known as the leading thinker of the Reform movement in Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany. Heschel argues that Geiger "revised...