François Blanchetière is a French New Testament scholar. He is known for his view on continuity between

Second Temple period The Second Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem. It began with the return to Zion and subsequent reconstructio ...

Judaism and

Jewish Christianity Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Roman Judea during the late Second Temple period, under the Herodian tetrarchy (1st century AD). These Jews believed that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah and t ...

and considers that Jesus cannot be considered as a "founder" of a religion. Blanchetière considers that " Nazarene" religion was a religious movement of Semitic character within Judaism.

Dan Jaffé Dan Jaffé (; born in 1970) is a Franco-Israeli specialist in the history of religions and teaches at Bar-Ilan University (Tel-Aviv) and Ashkelon Academic College. He is a researcher attached to the CNRS The French National Centre for Scienti ...

''Studies in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity'' 2010 "... did not advocate the abandonment of Jewish precepts, he concludes that Jesus cannot be considered as a “founder”. ... Blanchetière does concede, though, that the Nazarene stream refers to a religious movement of Semitic character within His position is often linked to that of

Simon Claude Mimouni Simon Claude Mimouni (born 26 April 1949) is a French biblical scholar. He published first on Christian legends surrounding the assumption of Mary (1995, 2003), then worked on fragments of Jewish–Christian gospels associated with the 3rd and 4t ...

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