Anonymous (still no name?):

I find it interesting that your examples deal with early OT examples. I note this because my remarks dealt with Judaism in the Second Temple context when the OT is nearing its completion and recognition. The idea of the core of Judaism involving monotheism and law is what helps to define Judaism when Jesus is dealing with it. He sees some center to the Hebrew Scriptures. It revolves around promise, the one God of Israel and a proper, faithful response to Torah and God's call to righteousness.

I do not see how a choice for Jesus with only an ethical thrust (the sometimes denomninational option that is Jesusanity) really honors a historically rooted reading of these texts or of Jesus' ministry. The idea that Jesus had a hope tied to Jewish expectation is layered at every level of the traditions that are presented in the gospel tradition. This is anything but Jesusanity.

dlb