New book by Daniel Boyarin, The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ (NY: New Press, 2012). On the face ot it, very old stuff if you have been brought up the old way: the suffering messiah was already deeply anchored in Jewish culture before the first c. of our era (trito-Isaiah), Daniel’s son of man (ch. 7) already indicated the divine nature of the coming messiah, whereas son of god was a more humdrum messianic notion. This old stuff looks spanking new, however, in a modern culture for which ideas of suffering messiahs and divine sonship look far-fetched, contrived, and the later developments or borrowings by power-greedy early Christian institutions. Mutatis mutandis, fashion works the same way. Keep to the same style all your life and you are bound to be avant-garde here and there, then in fashion, and again arrière-garde.