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5 - The Gospels and ‘the Historical Jesus’

from Part I - Approaching the Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Stephen E. Fowl
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Provides an analysis of historical Jesus studies and the key interpretative issues scholars seek to address. Surveying scholarship from the eighteenth century on, Fowl disentangles the guiding assumptions of historical Jesus research in its quest for a dispassionate assessment of historical ‘facts’ and interpretative frameworks. As case studies, Fowl compares the major accounts of Jesus offered by John Dominic Crossan, N. T. Wright and Luke Timothy Johnson.

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historical JesusJohn Dominic CrossanN. T. WrightLuke Timothy Johnsonhistory of scholarshipgospels
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 91 - 111
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Allison, Dale C., Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination and History (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010)Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006); 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017)Google Scholar
Crossan, John Dominic, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991)Google Scholar
Dunn, J. D. G., Jesus Remembered (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003)Google Scholar
Frei, Hans W., The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974)Google Scholar
Johnson, Luke Timothy, The Real Jesus (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996)Google Scholar
Keith, Chris, and Le Donne, Anthony, eds., Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2012)Google Scholar
Okure, Teresa, ‘Historical Jesus Research in Global Cultural Context’, in Holmén, T. and Porter, S., eds., Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 4 vols., vol. II (Leiden: Brill, 2010), 953–84Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P., Jesus and Judaism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986)Google Scholar
Strauss, D. F., The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, trans. George Eliot (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972; German original 1835–36)Google Scholar
Wright, N. T., Jesus and the Victory of God (Minneapolis, MN: Augburg Fortress, 1996)Google Scholar

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