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Collins, John J. The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature. The Anchor Bible Reference Library; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; 2nd edition (22 Nov. 2010) is available on Kindle and in paperback on Amazon UK. £26.59/£27.99. That is about $35, I think. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scepter-Star-Messiahs-Scrolls-Literature/dp/0802832237

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Hello, have you also read Peter Schäfer's "The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other"?

I saw it while going to buy his "Jesus in the Talmud" and was wondering if you had read it.

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Hi!

No, I haven't - I've read a bunch of papers of his, and parts of The Mirror of His Beauty, Judeophobia, and the Origins of Jewish Mysticism, but not that one - I should, and should revisit Mirror and Origins, because it's been a while since I looked at either of those

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