There he met a pastor, Josef Perl, who piqued his interest in Jesus and Christianity.[1] As a young schoolboy his parents had sent him to a Christian school, but in Palestine during the late 1930s he became an observant Jew.[2] Flusser emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he completed his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1957. He later taught in the Comparative Religions department for many years, mentoring many future scholars.