Authenticating criteria in Jesus research and beyond : an interdisciplinary methodology / by Kevin B. Burr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burr, Kevin B., author.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 219.

Biblical interpretation series ; volume 219

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Historicity.

Jesus Christ.

Historiography--Methodology.

Historiography.

History--Research.

History.

New Testament scholars.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

Are the criteria of authenticity of Jesus research idiosyncratic to New Testament studies, vehicles of subjectivity, and fundamentally flawed vestiges of form criticism as some claim today? If so, why do opponents of the criteria-approach still use them? Or, are the criteria the tools of general historiography as others assert? If true, none have adequately demonstrated where and how principles such as multiple attestation, general and historical coherence, dissimilarity and embarrassment feature in general historiographic method - until now. This study analyzes the methods of general historians and Jesus researchers (who favor or oppose the criteria) and demonstrates that, regardless of sub-discipline, authenticating criteria are inherent to the practice of historiography.

Are the criteria of authenticity of Jesus research idiosyncratic to New Testament studies, vehicles of subjectivity, and fundamentally flawed vestiges of form criticism as some claim today? If so, why do opponents of the criteria-approach still use them? Or, are the criteria the tools of general historiography as others assert? If true, none have adequately demonstrated where and how principles such as multiple attestation, general and historical coherence, dissimilarity and embarrassment feature in general historiographic method - until now. This study analyzes the methods of general historians and Jesus researchers (who favor or oppose the criteria) and demonstrates that, regardless of sub-discipline, authenticating criteria are inherent to the practice of historiography.

Contents:

1. Decades of discussion on authenticating criteria in historical Jesus research

2. Authenticating criteria in general historical method

3. Historical Jesus scholars' use of authenticating criteria : a test case on Jesus's trial(s)

4. The use of authenticating criteria among modern historians of Greco-Roman antiquity : a test case on Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon

5. Interdisciplinary application of authenticating criteria and further implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004549012

9004549013

OCLC:

1395536854