The historical Jesus of the Gospels /

Keener, Craig S., 1960-

The historical Jesus of the Gospels / Craig S. Keener. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2009. - xxxviii, 831 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 604-714) and indexes.

I. Disparate views about Jesus: The development of Jesus scholarship ; Jesus the cynic sage? ; Jesus and Judaism ; Other gospels? -- II. The character of the Gospels: ; The gospels as biographies ; Luke-Acts as history ; Ancient historiography as history ; Ancient historiography as rhetoric ; The gospels' written sources ; The gospels' oral sources -- III. What we learn about Jesus from the best sources: John the Baptist ; Jesus the Galilean Jew ; Jesus the teacher ; Kingdom discipleship ; Jesus' Jewish ethics ; Conflicts with other teachers ; Jesus the prophet ; Jesus as Messiah? ; More than an earthly Messiah ; Confronting and provoking the elite ; Jesus' arrest and execution ; The resurrection -- Appendix 1. Zealots and revolutionaries -- Appendix 2. Mack's case for a Wisdom Q -- Appendix 3. Jewish biographical conventions -- Appendix 4. Jesus' sayings about the end -- Appendix 5. John and the Synoptics on Passover chronology -- Appendix 6. Roman participation in Jesus' arrest? -- Appendix 7. Capital authority -- Appendix 8. What really happened at the tomb? -- Appendix 9. Some postresurrection teachings

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Jesus Christ--Historicity.


Jesus

BT 303.2 / .K45 2009

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