Book contents
- Jesus in Context
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Jesus in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction and Purpose of This Book
- Part I Setting the Scene
- 1 Sources for Our Knowledge of Jesus’ Context
- 2 The Historical and Social Contexts
- 3 The Religious Context
- 4 Our Sources of Information about Jesus
- 5 The Writing of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
- 6 Finding the Historical Jesus
- Part II Jesus’ Life, Ministry and Teaching
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Finding the Historical Jesus
from Part I - Setting the Scene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2021
Book contents
- Jesus in Context
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Jesus in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Introduction and Purpose of This Book
- Part I Setting the Scene
- 1 Sources for Our Knowledge of Jesus’ Context
- 2 The Historical and Social Contexts
- 3 The Religious Context
- 4 Our Sources of Information about Jesus
- 5 The Writing of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
- 6 Finding the Historical Jesus
- Part II Jesus’ Life, Ministry and Teaching
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
If you had asked people in most of the Christian world before the seventeenth century how and what we know about Jesus, they would likely have been puzzled by the question, and referred you to the creeds and traditions of the church and especially to the gospels in the NT; the gospel stories will typically have been viewed, as in the early days of the church, as ‘reminiscences of the apostles’, that is, reliable accounts written by people close to Jesus.
Of course there were sceptics from the very beginning.
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- Jesus in ContextMaking Sense of the Historical Figure, pp. 63 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021