1st Edition

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

Edited By Thomas L. Thompson, Thomas S. Verenna Copyright 2012
290 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen.

Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.