Is This Not The Carpenter? -

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Résumé :
Is This Not The Carpenter? offers readers the most up to date overview of how the historicity of Jesus is examined in contemporary scholarship.

Biographie:
Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen. Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.

Sommaire:
Introduction, Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna Part I: Into the Well of Historical Jesus Scholarship 1. A (Very, Very) Short Introduction to Minimalism: From the Chronicler to the Present, Jim West 2. The German Pestilence: Re-assessing Feuerbach, Strauss and Bauer, Roland Boer 3. 'Jesus Who is Called Christ': References to Jesus outside Christian Sources, Lester L. Grabbe 4. The Grand Inquisitor and Christ: Why the Church Does Not Want Jesus, Niels Peter Lemche 5. Jesus and the Mythic Mind: An Epistemological Problem, Emanuel Pfoh Part II: Paul and Early Christianity: Historical and Exegetical Investigations 6. Does the Christ Myth Theory Require an Early Date for the Pauline Epistles?, Robert M. Price 7. Paul: The Oldest Witness to the Historical Jesus, Mogens Muller 8. Born under the Law: Intertextuality and the Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus in Paul's Epistles, Thomas S. Verenna Part III: The Rewritten Bible and the Life of Jesus 9. Can John's Gospel Really Be Used to Reconstruct a Life of Jesus? An Assesment of Recent Trends and a Defence of a Traditional View, James G. Crossley 10. Psalm 72 and Mark 1:12-13: Mythic Evocation in Narratives of the Good King, Thomas L. Thompson 11. 'Who is My Neighbour?': Implicit Use of Old Testament Stories and Motifs in Luke's Gospel, Ingrid Hjelm 12. The Isa Narrative in the Qur'an: The Making of a Prophet, Joshua Sabih 13. Investigating Earliest Christianity without Jesus, K. L. Noll

An important example of what we need more of: serious scholarly examinations and debates on the historicity of Jesus and what methods to use in resolving it. It includes papers that for specialists are required reading on this topic - Richard Carrier, author of 'Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus'. Marks an important milestone in the debate concerning mythicism in New Testament scholarship. - Thomas Bolin, St Norbert College, Wisconsin, USA This volume contributes to a crucial development, namely moving historical investigation beyond the usual restrictions of the historical critical method, particularly beyond reliance on the theory of oral tradition, and bringing it into new terrain, especially that of literature. - Thomas L. Brodie, Dominican Biblical Institute, Limerick Will this volume have an impact on the debate or scholarship in general? It should! - If you are interested in the historical Jesus debate, this book will be of significant interest. - AaronAdair, Fleeing Nergal, Seeking Stars An open discussion giving a fresh examination of historicity issues surrounding Jesus without necessarily relying upon the assumption of a historical Jesus. - Kevin Brown, Diglotting