This essay pursues the studies pertaining to the quest for the historical Jesus which has been begun in the Enlightenment era and focuses on the dominant discourse of this quest in the present-day scholarly works as Jesus the Jew. The late-coming acceptance of the Jewishness of Jesus is now a scholarly cliché. In the context of the Gospels, to say “Jesus was a Jew” is not a really shocked or unexpected idea. The problem is about the Jewishness of Jesus why it took too long time until the 1970s. The second problem is how the assertion of the Jewishness of Jesus could develop tremendously in the contemporary academy. That is difficult to answer the questions within the borders of mere theology. Therefore, we, in this essay, will have recourse
