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.
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| Introduction |
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I Into the Well of Historical Jesus Scholarship |
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1 A (Very, Very) Short History of Minimalism: From the Chronicler to the Present |
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2 The German Pestilence: Re-assessing Feuerbach, Strauss and Bauer |
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3 `Jesus Who Is Called Christ': References to Jesus outside Christian Sources |
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4 The Grand Inquisitor and Christ: Why the Church Does Not Want Jesus |
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5 Jesus and the Mythic Mind: An Epistemological Problem |
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II Paul and Early Christianity: Historical and Exegetical Investigations |
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6 Does the Christ Myth Theory Require an Early Date for the Pauline Epistles? |
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7 Paul: The Oldest Witness to the Historical Jesus |
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8 Born under the Law: Intertextuality and the Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus in Paul's Epistles |
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III The Rewritten Bible and the Life of Jesus |
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9 Can John's Gospel Really Be Used to Reconstruct a Life of Jesus? An Assessment of Recent Trends and a Defence of a Traditional View |
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10 Psalm 72 and Mark 1:12-13: Mythic Evocation in Narratives of the Good King |
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11 `Who Is My Neighbour?': Implicit Use of Old Testament Stories and Motifs in Luke's Gospel |
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12 The `Isa Narrative in the Qur'an': The Making of a Prophet |
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13 Investigating Earliest Christianity without Jesus |
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Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen.
Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.
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