Jesus. A Nazarene

Jesus. Ein Nazarener ( Der man fun Natzeres ) also Der Nazarener or Jesus der Nazarener is a novel by the author Shalom Asch , which was published in 1939.

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In his epic work about the life of Jesus of Nazareth , Shalom Asch reports from a multi-perspective point of view: on the one hand from the point of view of an old Polish professor and on the other hand from that of a Jewish student, both of whom live independently of one another in the faith of once contemporaries of Jesus' to have been and to have participated in the historical events of the time. In addition, Asch describes the events through a fictional 5th Gospel .

background

Asch first wrote the work in Yiddish before it was translated into English. The first German translation was Der Nazarener , Amsterdam 1950, later it was also given the title Jesus the Nazarener .

There is a German translation from 1940. The Nazarener. Bermann-Fischer Verlag / Stockholm Allert de Lange / Amsterdam

Title of the American edition: The Nazarene Copyright, 1939 in the United States by Sholem Asch, First published in New York by GP Putnam´s Sons. Translated from English by Paul Baudisch

Binding and dust jacket Justinian Frisch Printed in Hungary Printing: Hungaria A.-G., Budapest

expenditure

• Schalom Asch: The man fun Natzeres . o. O., 1939
• Shalom Asch: Jesus. A Nazarene . Diana-Verlag, Zurich 1987, 714 pages, ISBN 3-905414-56-2
• Shalom Asch: Jesus the Nazarenes . Weltbild , Augsburg 1991
• Shalom Asch: Jesus the Nazarenes . Droemer Knaur 1997, ISBN 978-3426028681

Web links

• Rainer Kampling: And as it was eight days before the child was being circumcised, his name was mentioned Jesus ... "Jesus of Nazareth from a Jewish perspective

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. zu Asch: Gerhard Jasper-bethel: Voices from new religious Judaism in its position on Christianity and Jesus. Hamburg, 1958, pp. 91-109; on Jesus in the Jewish novel, cf. PA Siebesma: Eerst de jood; de plaats van Jezus in de joodse Literatuur. Voorthuizen, 1996.