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In , Pinchas Lapide became the first Jewish scholar to publish a full-length book on Yeshua’s resurrection. In , Wilhelm Linss translated it into English as The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective. While many Jewish scholars grant the historical veracity of Yeshua’s empty tomb, and that his disciples had experiences they were convinced was Yeshua appearing to them risen from the dead, Lapide went a step further. He concluded his study by claiming that the best explanation of the data from the earliest Jewish sources is that Yeshua’s resurrection was an event that occurred in history.
The Historicity of Yeshua’s Resurrection
The primary text Lapide considers for Yeshua’s resurrection is 1 Corinthians –5:
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that [Messiah] died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
Based on linguistic analysis, Lapide considers this text to be Jewish oral tradition that Paul received from the first witnesses of the risen Yeshua. Furthermore, he writes, “[this] formula of faith may be considered a statement of eyewitnesses for whom the experience of the resurrection beca
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Three Popes and the Jews
book by Pinchas Lapide
Three Popes and the Jews is a book by Pinchas Lapide, a former Israeli Consul to Milan, who at the time of publication was a deputy editor in the Israeli Prime Minister's press office.[1] The "three popes" are Pope Pius XII (–), Pope John XXIII (–), and Pope Paul VI (–).
Reviews
[edit]The Catholic Herald in its review of the book observed, "The intentions of Mr. Lapide, deputy editor of the Prime Minister's press office in Israel and a pioneer of inter-faith relations, are so excellent that the reviewer finds it embarrassing to point out mistakes. These cast some doubt on the accuracy of the facts and figures of the rescue operations given later in great detail."[2] The Roman Catholic periodical The Tablet observed "Embarrassed enquirers into the alleged "guilty silence" of the papacy over the Nazi extermination of the Jews have had to wait rather long for a comprehensive, well-documented and almost unreserved vindication."[3]
Rabbi David G. Dalin in The Myth of Hitler's Pope calls the book "meticulously researched and comprehensive" as well as "the definitive work by a Jewish scholar on the subject".[4]
Holocaust historian Dr. Susan Zuccotti calls the work "consis