Is This Not the Carpenter? - The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus

Informationen zum Autor Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus! University of Copenhagen. Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University. This volumes questions what has been lost through wide-spread assumptions of historicity and presents a very valuable corrective: a literary rereading of the New Testament. Zusammenfassung The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation which effectively sweeps aside much theological speculation and allusion. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Into the Well of Historical Jesus Scholarship! II. Paul and Early Christianity: Historical and Exegetical Investigations! Part III The Rewritten Bible and the Life of Jesus

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• Authors: Thomas L. Verenna Thompson
• Assisted by: Thomas L. Thompson (Editor), Thompson Thomas L. (Editor), Thomas S. Verenna (Editor), Verenna Thomas S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9781845539863
• ISBN: 978-1-84553-986-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Copenhagen International Seminar
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt