Author : Darrell L. Bock
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2002-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080102451X
An informed, scholarly approach to the study of the historical Jesus that takes the Gospels seriously as a source of historical information.
Author : Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004379894
This volume offers critical assessments of Life of Jesus research in the last generation, with special emphasis on work that is quite recent. It will introduce graduate students to the field and will provide the veteran scholar with current bibliography and discussion of the issues. Topics treated include Jesus and Palestinian politics, Jesus tradition in Paul, Jesus in extracanonical Gospels, and Jesus' parables, miracles, death, and resurrection. The contributors are among the most widely recognized and respected Life of Jesus scholars. They include Marcus J. Borg, James H. Charlesworth, James D.G. Dunn, Sean Freyne, Richard Horsley, and Helmut Koester.
Author : Tom Holmén
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 3740 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004163727
V. 1. How to study the historical Jesus -- v. 2. The study of Jesus -- v. 3. The historical Jesus -- v. 4. Individual studies.
Author : Robert Van Voorst
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802843685
Presents evidence and information, aside from the Christian scriptures, on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. Features excerpts in Roman correspondence and the early Christian writings known as the "New Testament Apocrypha.".
Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 140082737X
The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.
Author : Anthony Le Donne
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0802865267
Historical Jesus asks two primary questions: What does historical mean? and How should we apply this to Jesus? Anthony Le Donne begins with the unusual step of considering human perception how sensory data from sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell are interpreted from the very beginning by what we expect, what we ve learned, and how we categorize the world. In this way Le Donne shows how historical memories are initially formed. He continues with the nature of human memory and how it interacts with group memories. Finally, he offers a philosophy of history and uses it to outline three dimensions from the life of Jesus: his dysfunctional family, his politics, and his final confrontation in Jerusalem. This little book is ideal for those with no background in religious studies even those with no faith who wish to better understand who Jesus was and how we can know what we do know about him.
Author : Bruce Chilton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802841872
Bruce Chilton focuses on Jesus' teaching of the kingdom in this volume, part of the Studying the Historical Jesus series, a series devoted to exploring key questions concerning the historical Jesus within recent scholarly discussion.
Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310534771
In recent years, a number of New Testament scholars engaged in academic historical Jesus studies have concluded that such scholarship cannot yield secure and illuminating conclusions about its subject, arguing that the search for a historically "authentic" Jesus has run aground. Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History brings together a stellar lineup of New Testament scholars who contend that historical Jesus scholarship is far from dead. These scholars all find value in using the tools of contemporary historical methods in the study of Jesus and Christian origins. While the skeptical use of criteria to fashion a Jesus contrary to the one portrayed in the Gospels is methodologically unsound and theologically unacceptable, these criteria, properly formulated and applied, yield positive results that support the Gospel accounts and the historical narrative in Acts. This book presents a nuanced and vitally needed alternative to the skeptical extremes of revisionist Jesus scholarship that, on the one hand, uses historical methods to call into question the Jesus of the Gospels and, on the other, denies the possibility of using historical methods to learn about Jesus.
Author : Darrell L. Bock
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801027195
Gathers key extra-biblical writings that provide the necessary background for Gospel passages in one handy volume.
Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1610970608
That the synoptic writers believed that Jesus cast out demons and that such a role figured prominently in the Synoptics' portrait of him can scarcely be denied. And yet, only scant scholarly attention has been focused on Jesus' role as exorcist. Even less consideration has been given to the significance of Jesus as exorcist for understanding the historical Jesus. Now, in a provocative and insightful study, Graham Twelftree helps New Testament scholars move beyond such myopia. Twelftree examines exorcists and exorcism in first-century Palestine, assesses the New Testament accounts of demons and their demise, and explores the implications and significance of the fact that Jesus was indeed an exorcist. The volume appeared originally in the noted German series Wissenschaftliche Unteruchmungen zum Neuen Testament.
