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16 - The History of Jesus in Biblical Scholarship

from Part III - Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
James Carleton Paget
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

The chapter gives a broadly chronological account of the ‘quest of the historical Jesus’. The discussion raises questions about the meaning of the term ‘historical Jesus’, the extent to which the ‘quest’ can be divided into self-contained periods of study, and about the purpose of such study, especially when it is approached with different methodologies and presuppositions. Such disputation, it is argued, should encourage an attitude of modesty among scholars involved in the ‘quest.’

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historical JesuscriteriaThird Quest
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 265 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Allison, Dale C. 2010. Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard. 2017. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Bermejo-Rubio, Fernando 2009. ‘The Fiction of the “Three Quests”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Historiographical Paradigm.’ JSHJ 7: 211–53.Google Scholar
Brown, Colin, with Craig A. Evans. 2022. A History of the Quests for the Historical Jesus. 2 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic.Google Scholar
Käsemann, Ernst. 1964. ‘The Problem of the Historical Jesus.’ In Essays on New Testament Themes, 15–47. London: SCM.Google Scholar
Keith, Chris and Le Donne, Anthony, eds. 2013. Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity. London: T&T Clark.Google Scholar
Keith, Chris et al., eds. 2020. The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries. 3 vols. London: T & T Clark.Google Scholar
Meggitt, Justin. 2023. “Putting the Apocalyptic Jesus to the Sword: Why Were Jesus’s Disciples Armed?” JSNT 45: 371–404.Google Scholar
Pals, Daniel L. 1982. The Victorian Lives of Jesus. San Antonio: Trinity University Press.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. 1985. Jesus and Judaism. London: SCM/Fortress.Google Scholar
Schröter, Jens and Jacobi, Christine. 2022. The Jesus Handbook. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schüssler-Fiorenza, Elisabeth. 2000. Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation. New York: Continuum.Google Scholar
Schweitzer, Albert. 2000. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. London: SCM.Google Scholar
Theissen, Gerd and Merz, Annette. 1998. The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide. London: SCM.Google Scholar
Weaver, Walter. 1999. The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1950. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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