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Eschatological Prophet
Fortress Press
German Pestilence
historical
Historical Jesus
Historical Jesus Scholarship
jesus
Luke's Version
Luke’s Version
Mark's Gospel
Mark’s Gospel
messiah
Messiah Myth
myth
Mythic Mind
Nag Hammadi Library
Niels Peter Lemche
Paul's Letters
pauline
Pauline Epistles
Paul’s Letters
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Prometheus
Rewritten Bible
Richard Bauckham
sheffield
Sheffield Academic Press
Synoptic Gospels
Synoptic Traditions
Testament Studies
Thematic Elements
Toledot Yeshu
Product details
- ISBN 9781845539863
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Furthermore, the assumption of historicity gathers further assumptions to it, shaping the interpretation of texts, both denying and adding subtext. Scholars are now faced with an endless array of works on the historical Jesus and few question what has been lost through this wide-spread assumption of historicity. Is This Not the Carpenter? presents a very valuable corrective: a literary rereading of the New Testament.
Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen.
Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.
