The Historical Jesus In The Twentieth Century

Author : Walter P. Weaver
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563382802
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century written by Walter P. Weaver and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear and engaging style, Weaver's story chronicles not only the progress of Jesus research but also the cultural drifts and sociological phenomena that relate to the varying pictures of Jesus that scholarship has produced.

Author : Gary R. Habermas
Publisher : College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899007328
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus written by Gary R. Habermas and published by College Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Ancient evidence for the life of Jesus. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Amy-Jill Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082737X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus in Context written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061978213
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus written by John Dominic Crossan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else. They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they know it in terms of tax and debt, malnutrition and sickness, agrarian oppression and demonic possession. What, they really want to know, can this kingdom of God do for a lame child, a blind parent, a demented soul screaming its tortured isolation among the graves that mark the edges of the village?" –– from "The Gospel of Jesus," overture to The Historical Jesus The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus––who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it. The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. "There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems," writes Crossan. "There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.' With this ground–breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan's unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco–Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive presentation of the historical Jesus yet attained.

Author : Walter P. Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567691446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century written by Walter P. Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the present volume, Walter P. Weaver tells the fascinating story of Jesus research during the first half of the twentieth century. Written in a clear and engaging style, Weaver's story chronicles not only the progress of Jesus research but also the cultural drifts and sociological phenomena that relate to the varying pictures of Jesus that scholarship has produced. The story begins at the turn of the century with Albert Schweitzer and the publication of The Quest of the Historical Jesus. Making its way through two world wars, during which Jesus scholarship was mesmerized by national peril and driven to a period of pause, the story ends with the remarkable discovery in the 1940s of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi documents-- discoveries that would stir the world of biblical scholarship for years to come. Throughout this period, Weaver points out, a struggle went on for the Jewish soul of Jesus. The period was also characterized by many attempts to popularize the results of Jesus research and to present Jesus as a public icon"--

Author : Darrell L. Bock
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 080102451X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying the Historical Jesus written by Darrell L. Bock and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informed, scholarly approach to the study of the historical Jesus that takes the Gospels seriously as a source of historical information.

Author : Helen K. Bond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567125106
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Helen K. Bond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), noting the problems connected with them, paying particular attention to the nature of the gospels, and the Synoptic versus the Johannine tradition. A substantial section will discuss scholarship on Jesus from the nineteenth century to the explosion of works in the present day, introducing and explaining the three different 'quests' for the historical Jesus. Subsequent chapters will analyse key themes in historical Jesus research: Jesus' Galilean origins; the scope of his ministry and models of 'holy men', particularly that of prophet; Jesus' teaching and healing; his trial and crucifixion; the highly contentious question of his resurrection; and finally an exploration of the links between the Jesus movement and the early church. Throughout, the (often opposing) positions of a variety of key scholars will be explained and discussed (eg. Sanders, Crossan, Dunn, Wright, Brown).

Author : Craig S. Keener
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868886
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Jesus of the Gospels written by Craig S. Keener and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664258429
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who is Jesus? written by John Dominic Crossan and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book makes the results of a lifetime of scholarship readily available to nonspecialists who want to meet the historical Jesus. Eminent biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan collaborates with pastor Richard G. Watts to rediscover the life, the work, and the message of the Man from Galilee.

Author : David Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199929505
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus written by David Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.