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This summary is taken principally from the distinguished German New Testament scholar Franz Mussner, “Der Jude Jesus,” Freiburger Rundbrief 23 (1971), pp. 3–7; see also, Traktat über die Juden (Munich: Kosel, 1979), p. 183; Tractate on the Jews: The Significance of Judaism for Christian Faith (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), p. 113. See Pinchas Lapide and Ulrich Luz, Jesus in Two Perspectives: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985).
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols., ed. James H. Charlesworth (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983, 1985); The Apocryphal Old Testament, ed. H. F. D. Sparks (New York: Clarendon Press, 1984). For a general introduction to this literature and the Qumran writings, see Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, ed. Michael E. Stone (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).
One scholar who subscribes to Gerleman’s thesis, albeit not without qualification, is M. E. Andrew, “Esther, Exodus and Peoples,” Australian Biblical Review 23 (1975), pp. 25–28. For further criticism of Gerleman’s thesis, see Moore, “Esther Revisited Again: A Further Examination of Certain Esther Studies in the Past Ten Years,” Hebrew Annual Review 7 (1983), pp. 173–76.
