Anglický jazyk

Recent Research on the Historical Jesus

Vydavateľstvo: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Rok vydania: 2014
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781909697546

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O knihe

Over the past two hundred years, several have ventured to
write a history of Jesus, but few have discussed their method of
writing about the past in any depth. Unspoken assumptions or
bias often dictate what the historian will find. The fact that
there are so many conflicting pictures of Jesus compounds the
problem. In the last thirty years of Jesus research, which have
been identified as the Third Quest for the historical Jesus, historians
have agreed that Jesus makes the most sense within a Jewish context, a setting that allows historians to write about Jesus from various historical perspectives.

Simpson addresses the issue of method in historical Jesus research
by looking at two prominent historians of the Third
Quest-John Meier and James Dunn. Both Meier and Dunn
typify distinct approaches to the historical Jesus, and both claim
to be a part of the Third Quest. Simpson analyses their philosophy
of history and historical method. In the second part of the
book, Simpson looks at how Meier and Dunn handle certain
key events in the life of Jesus. The treatment of these events
serves as a way of highlighting the drawbacks and advantages of
each method.
These distinct approaches point to the tensions that make up
the Third Quest and illustrate how the concerns of recent research,
evolving over a short period of time, have brought old
questions to the surface in new ways. By describing the current
situation of historical Jesus research as evidenced by Meier and
Dunn, Simpson maps out some promising lines of future research.