A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus: v.2 (The Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus) - Hardcover

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Meier, John P.

 
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The second volume of the author's quest for the real Jesus focuses on the development of Jesus's ministry, the powerful influence of his mentor, John the Baptist, and his practice of exorcisms, healings, and miracles.

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the second volume in John Meier's masterful trilogy on the life of Jesus. In it he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was Jesus? To answer this Meier imagines the following scenario: "Suppose that a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, and an agnostic were locked up in the bowels of the Harvard Divinity School library... and not allowed to emerge until they had hammered out a consensus document on who Jesus of Nazareth was and what he intended...". A Marginal Jew is what Meier thinks that document would reveal. Volume one concluded with Jesus approaching adulthood. Now, in this volume, Meier focuses on the Jesus of our memory and the development of his ministry. To begin, Meier identifies Jesus's mentor, the one person who had the greatest s

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ISBN 10:  0300140339 ISBN 13:  9780300140330
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007
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