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The Jesus handbook / edited by Jens Schröter and Christine Jacobi ; translated by Robert L. Brawley ; foreword by Dale C. Allison Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Teachings.
- Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ--Person and offices.
- Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 696 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2022]
- Contents:
- A. Introduction :
- About this handbook
- The earthly Jesus and the Christ of confession: contours of the Jesus quest
- The Jesus quest in the age of critical historiography
- The "remembered Jesus": on the relevance of a paradigm of current Jesus research
- Historical material as a foundation for the reconstruction of the deeds and fate of Jesus
- Early impacts of Jesus
- Literature for basic orientation
- B. History of historical-critical research on Jesus :
- Introduction
- The earthly Jesus in the piety and theology of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation
- The eighteenth century as the context for the origin of critical theology
- Critical historiography of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its implications for Jesus research
- The concept of myth in historical Jesus research and the rise of the two-document hypothesis
- The "kingdom of God" as an eschatological concept: Johannes Weiss and Albert Schweitzer
- Historical Jesus and kerygmatic Christ
- The literary designs of the Gospels and their relationship to the historical Jesus
- The Gospels as "kerygmatic narratives" of Jesus and the "criteria" in historical Jesus research
- The "third quest for the historical Jesus"
- The "remembered Jesus": memory as a historiographical-hermeneutical paradigm of research on Jesus
- C. The historical material :
- Literary evidence
- Nonliterary evidence
- D. The life and work of Jesus :
- Political conditions and religious context
- Biographical aspects
- Public ministry
- E. Early traces of the Wirkungen (effects) and reception of Jesus. Introduction
- Resurrection, appearances, instructions of the Risen One
- Early confessions of faith
- Christological titles
- The formation of structures: the Twelve, wandering charismatics, the primitive Jerusalem community, and apostles
- Jesus in noncanonical texts of the second and third centuries
- Visual representations of Jesus up until ca. 500 CE
- Ethics (Sermon on the Mount).
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German by Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG Tübingen under the title Jesus Handbuch, 2017 Mohr Siebeck Tübingen."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-637) and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781467465434 (electronic bk.)
- 1467465437 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99992174266
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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