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In this passage Paul describes Jesus in two ways: raised from the dead and a descendant of David. Jesus, the resurrected, was a Jew.
Jaroslav Pelikan, in his magnificent work Jesus Through the Centuries (Yale University, 1985), reminds us how orthodox Christianity tended to forget the Jewishness of Jesus. "To the Christian disciples of the first century," he writes, "the conception of Jesus as a rabbi was self-evident, to the Christian disciples of the second century it was embarrassing, to the Christian disciples of the third century and beyond it was obscure."
Jaroslav Pelikan, in his magnificent work Jesus Through the Centuries (Yale University, 1985), reminds us how orthodox Christianity tended to forget the Jewishness of Jesus. "To the Christian disciples of the first century," he writes, "the conception of Jesus as a rabbi was self-evident, to the Christian disciples of the second century it was embarrassing, to the Christian disciples of the third century and beyond it was obscure."
