Jesus two thousand years later

Abstract

This latest volume in the Faith and Scholarship Colloquies series examines the history and impact of historical Jesus research. Weaver and Charlesworth have gathered an impressive array of voices in this engaging collection. John Dominic Crossan (Emeritus, DePaul) provides a fascinating tour of the development of historical Jesus research, exploring the debate that such research has sparked in the community of faith and offering his own proposals about the future of these studies. E.P. Sanders (Duke) lucidly discusses the methods scholars use to determine how we know what we know about Jesus. Jewish scholar Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt) engages in a lively consideration of the difficulties of applying the results of historical Jesus research to contemporary lives. Finally, James Charlesworth (Princeton) examines the sources and methods involved in Jesus research and offers a provocative outline of the results of such research. James H. Charlesworth teaches at Princeton Seminary and is the author of several books, including The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament (Trinity). Walter P. Weaver, Emeritus Professor of Religion at Florida Southern College, is the author of The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1950 (Trinity). For: Clergy; seminarians; undergraduate religious studies majors>