Endnote 1 – Did Jesus Oppose the Purity Laws?

Marcus Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994), p. 49. The opposition between compassion (Jesus) and purity (first-century Judaism, especially as associated with Jerusalem) is a leitmotif of Borg’s scholarship; see also his Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press, 1994).