Studying the Historical Jesus

Studying the Historical Jesus
Author: Darrell L. Bock
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2002-07
Genre: 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.

Studying the Historical Jesus

Studying the Historical Jesus
Author: Bruce D. Chilton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: 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.

Jesus the Exorcist

Jesus the Exorcist
Author: Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: 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.

Studying the Historical Jesus

Studying the Historical Jesus
Author: Bruce David Chilton
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004111424

This coordinated collection of studies provides important critical assessments of recent progress in Life of Jesus research. Topics treated include Jesus and Palestinian politics, the parables and miracles of Jesus, and the Jesus tradition in extracanonical sources.

Whose Historical Jesus?

Whose Historical Jesus?
Author: William E. Arnal
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0889203849

The figure of Jesus has fascinated Western civilization for centuries. As the year 2000 approaches, eliciting connections with Jesus’ birth and return, excitement grows — as does the number of studies about Jesus. Cutting through this mass of material, Whose Historical Jesus? provides a collection of penetrating, jargon-free, intelligently organized essays that convey well both the centrality and the complexity of deciphering the historical Jesus. Contributors include such eminent scholars as John Dominic Crossan, Burton L. Mack, Seán Freyne and Peter Richardson. Essays range from traditional to modern and postmodern and address both recent and enduring concerns. Introductions and reflections augment these lucid essays, provide context and help the reader focus on the issues at stake. Whose Historical Jesus? will be of interest to all who wish to understand the current controversies and historical debates, who want insightful critiques of those views or who would like guidance on the direction of future studies.

The Historical Jesus of the Gospels

The Historical Jesus of the Gospels
Author: Craig S. Keener
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 870
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802868886

The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus research are in the Gospels themselves; when interpreted in their early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern scholars. So argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels. In exploring the depth and riches of the material found in the Synoptic Gospels, Keener shows how many works on the historical Jesus emphasize just one aspect of the Jesus tradition against others, but a much wider range of material in the Jesus tradition makes sense in an ancient Jewish setting. Keener masterfully uses a broad range of evidence from the early Jesus traditions and early Judaism to reconstruct a fuller portrait of the Jesus who lived in history.

Jesus Outside the New Testament

Jesus Outside the New Testament
Author: Robert Van Voorst
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000-04-13
Genre: 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.".

The Historical Jesus in Context

The Historical Jesus in Context
Author: Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2009-01-10
Genre: 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.

Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History

Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: 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.