Introduces the sources of our knowledge about Jesus, surveying the history and culture of his times, and presents some of the methods used to study the Gospels, including historical, redaction, and narrative criticism.
Author: Darrell L. Bock
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801024511
Category: Religion
Page: 230
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An informed, scholarly approach to the study of the historical Jesus that takes the Gospels seriously as a source of historical information.This coordinated collection of studies provides important critical assessments of recent progress in Life of Jesus research.
Author: Bruce David Chilton
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004111425
Category: Religion
Page: 611
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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.Nothing showed this more than the work of Rudolf Bultmann (1884– 1976), who believed that we could know little about Jesus other than that he lived. The first quest had traveled the road of rationalistic historical study and had come to ...
Author: Darrell L. Bock
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1585585963
Category: Religion
Page: 232
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Interest in the historical Jesus continues to occupy much of today's discussion of the Bible. The vexing question is how the Jesus presented in the Gospels relates to the Jesus that actually walked this earth. Studying the Historical Jesus is an introductory guide to how one might go about answering that question by doing historical inquiry into the material found in the Gospels. Darrell Bock introduces the sources of our knowledge about Jesus, both biblical and extra-biblical. He then surveys the history and culture of the world of Jesus. The final chapters introduce some of the methods used to study the Gospels, including historical, redaction, and narrative criticisms. Bock, a well respected author, provides an informed evangelical alternative to radical projects like the Jesus Seminar. His audience, however, is not limited only to evangelicals. This book, written for college and seminary courses, offers an informed scholarly approach that takes the Gospels seriously as a source of historical information.The Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus is designed to create a means to handle the diversity and abundance.
Author: Tom Holmén
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004163720
Category: History
Page: 3652
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With ca. 120 articles from ca. 100 writers from ca. 20 countries, this publication forms a repository where students and scholars can readily get to know their way around the breadth of recent research on the historical Jesus.to show how it is that historical-Jesus research has progressed in order to arrive at the place that it is today. ... Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research (NTTS, 19; Leiden: E.J. Brill ...
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567043603
Category: Religion
Page: 306
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Historical-Jesus research continues to captivate the interests of scholars. Recently there has been renewed discussion of the criteria for authenticity. This study traces the history of this type of research, especially in terms of authenticity criteria.The volume appeared originally in the noted German series Wissenschaftliche Unteruchmungen zum Neuen Testament.
Author: Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781610970600
Category: Religion
Page: 286
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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.Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when studying the Jesus of faith with the critical eye of historical scholarship.
Author: Charles W. Hedrick
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781725232716
Category: Religion
Page: 200
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Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when studying the Jesus of faith with the critical eye of historical scholarship. He outlines the nature of historical inquiry, gives a brief history of how scholars have understood Jesus, and indentifies the essential issues confronting the reader of the New Testament Gospel accounts of Jesus: discrepancies, contradictions, and the differences as well as strong similarities among different writers.A Reassessment of the Arguments,” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, forthcoming. 6. For a concise and balanced survey, see e.g., E. P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus (London: Penguin, 1993), 15–32. 7.
Author: Zev Garber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317638230
Category: Religion
Page: 274
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Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but also opportunities to sustain interfaith dialogue and foster mutual understanding and respect. This new collection explores these challenges and opportunities, gathering together experiential lessons drawn from teaching Jesus in a wide variety of settings—from the public, secular two- or four-year college, to the Jesuit university, to the Rabbinic school or seminary, to the orthodox, religious Israeli university. A diverse group of Jewish and Christian scholars reflect on their own classroom experiences and explicates crucial issues for teaching Jesus in a way that encourages students at every level to enter into an encounter with the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament without paternalism, parochialism, or prejudice. This volume is a valuable resource for instructors and graduate students interested in an interfaith approach in the classroom, and provides practical case studies for scholars working on Jewish-Christian relations.