The Quest for the Plausible Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quest for the Plausible Jesus write by Gerd Theissen. This book was released on 2002-01-01. The Quest for the Plausible Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Should the dissimilarity between Jesus and early Christianity or between Jesus and Judaism be the central criteria for the historical Jesus? Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter argue that the criterion of dissimilarity does not do justice to the single most important result of more than two-hundred years of Jesus research: that the historical Jesus belongs to both Judaism and Christianity. The two authors propose a criterion of historical plausibility so that historical phenomenon under question can be considered authentic so long as it can be plausibly understood in its Jewish context and also facilitates a plausible explanation for its later effects in Christian history. This book is a cooperative project between Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen and represents the fruit of many years of their research on the historical Jesus.
The Quest of the Historical Jesus
The Quest of the Historical Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quest of the Historical Jesus write by Albert Schweitzer. This book was released on 2001-01-01. The Quest of the Historical Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking work, which established the reputation of Albert Schweitzer as a theologian, traces the search for the historical figure of Jesus (apart from the Christ of faith) and establishes the author's own views.
Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus write by Thomas L. Brodie. This book was released on 2012. Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past forty years, while historical-critical studies were seeking with renewed intensity to reconstruct events behind the biblical texts, not least the life of Jesus, two branches of literary studies were finally reaching maturity. First, researchers were recognizing that many biblical texts are rewritings or transformations of older texts that still exist, thus giving a clearer sense of where the biblical texts came from; and second, studies in the ancient art of composition clarified the biblical texts' unity and purpose, that is to say, where biblical texts were headed. The work of tracing literary indebtedness and art is far from finished but it is already possible and necessary to draw a conclusion: it is that, bluntly, Jesus did not exist as a historical individual. This is not as negative as may at first appear. In a deeply personal coda, Brodie begins to develop a new vision of Jesus as an icon of God's presence in the world and in human history.
Proving History
Proving History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proving History write by Richard C. Carrier. This book was released on 2012-04-03. Proving History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes’s Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical criteria. The author demonstrates that valid historical methods—not only in the study of Christian origins but in any historical study—can be described by, and reduced to, the logic of Bayes’s Theorem. Conversely, he argues that any method that cannot be reduced to this theorem is invalid and should be abandoned. Writing with thoroughness and clarity, the author explains Bayes’s Theorem in terms that are easily understandable to professional historians and laypeople alike, employing nothing more than well-known primary school math. He then explores precisely how the theorem can be applied to history and addresses numerous challenges to and criticisms of its use in testing or justifying the conclusions that historians make about the important persons and events of the past. The traditional and established methods of historians are analyzed using the theorem, as well as all the major "historicity criteria" employed in the latest quest to establish the historicity of Jesus. The author demonstrates not only the deficiencies of these approaches but also ways to rehabilitate them using Bayes’s Theorem. Anyone with an interest in historical methods, how historical knowledge can be justified, new applications of Bayes’s Theorem, or the study of the historical Jesus will find this book to be essential reading.
The Shadow of the Galilean
The Shadow of the Galilean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadow of the Galilean write by Gerd Theissen. This book was released on 2014-07-24. The Shadow of the Galilean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining New Testament study with the terseness of thriller writing, Theissen conveys the Gospel story in the imaginative prose of a novel. This is a story of our times, or how the gospels might have turned out if they were written by John Le Carre: racy, readable and full of incident.
