Writer Steve Schramm offers a helpful explanation on the relationship between these two key religions 

Before the 20th Century, New Testament scholarship experienced a sort of ‘dark ages’ as it relates to the life and testimony of Jesus. This is not because Jesus was not studied, rather it is because scholars were largely dismissive of Jesus’ Jewish background.

German scholarship has played a pivotal role in Historical Jesus studies and some scholars believe it was German anti-semitism that caused such a failure to recognize the Jewish backdrop of Jesus’ life on earth.

Given this new ‘reclamation’ of the so-called ‘Jewishness of Jesus’, it is natural to wonder… (Register to read the rest of the article)