Jewish Jesus and Identity Theft in Renaissance Art

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By Bernard Starr

"Christ in a Landscape" by Jan Swart Van Groningen.
About 1530-1540. Collection of Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal

In a strong statement that challenges the historic divide between Christianity and Judaism, Pope Francis recently proclaimed, "Inside every Christian is a Jew." But if you look at Renaissance artworks that depict Jesus, you will not find any evidence of a Jew inside the Christianized Jesus --even though the Gospels in the New Testament tell us that Jesus was Jewish to the core. Getting that point across to the public is a daunting task, as I learned in interviews I conducted for my book Jesus Uncensored: Restoring the Authentic Jew. Recently I've discovered that some people firmly state that Jesus was Jewish but at the same time deny it. [link]