The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (563 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0664225373 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Strong in Deconstruction, Lacking in Replacement Foundational to all historical research is methodology. Proper history is achieved through proper historiography. This naturally evokes the question of criteria. How is the historian to judge what ought to be included in her reconstruction of the past?It is this important question that Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter address in The Quest for the Plausible Jesus - The Question of Criteria. Though the title suggests that it deals comprehensively with historical Jesus criteria, it is directed solely toward the criterion of dissimilarity.Theissen and Wint
His books include The Religion of the Earliest Churches and The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form.Dagmar Winter is Associate Vicar at Hexham Abbey and Hexham Deanery Training Officer in Northumberland, England. . Gerd Theissen is Professor of New Testament at th
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
Should the dissimilarity between Jesus and early Christianity or between Jesus and Judaism be the central criteria for the historical Jesus? Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter argue that the criterion of dissimilarity does not do justice to the single most important result of more than two-hundred years of Jesus research: that the historical Jesus belongs to both Judaism and Christianity. This book is a cooperative project between Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen and represents the fruit of many years of their research on the historical Jesus.. The two authors propose a criterion of historical plausibility so that historical phenomenon under question can be considered authentic so long as it can be plausibly understood in its Jewish context and also facilitates a plausible explanation for its later effects in Christian history