The Jesus Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802876927 ISBN 13: 9780802876928

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2022

Synopsis

An authoritative handbook on Jesus, his world, the outcomes of his life, and the quests to locate him in history.

The Jesus Handbook is an indispensable reference work featuring essays from an international team of renowned scholars on the significance and meaning of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Rooted in historical-critical methodology, it emphasizes a diversity of perspectives and provides a spectrum of possible interpretations rather than a single unified portrait of Jesus. The Handbook's dozens of authors--Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Protestant--all remain committed to the principle of interpreting the life of Jesus in context, while also giving due diligence to the implications of archaeological evidence and recent discourses in the hermeneutics of history.

After an introduction that lays out the considerations of the task at hand, the authors survey the history of Jesus research and take a close look at the historical material itself--textual and otherwise. From this foundation, the Handbook then details the life of Jesus before at last exploring the reception and effects of Jesus's life after his death, especially in the first centuries CE. With this wealth of information available in a single volume, scholars and students of the New Testament and early Christianity--and anyone interested in the search for the historical Jesus--will find The Jesus Handbook to be a resource that they return to time and again for both its breadth and depth.

Contributors:

Sven-Olav Back, Knut Backhaus, Reinhard von Bendemann, Albrecht Beutel, Darrell L. Bock, Martina Böhm, Cilliers Breytenbach, James G. Crossley, Lutz Doering, Martin Ebner, Craig A. Evans, Jörg Frey, Yair Furstenberg, Simon Gathercole, Christine Gerber, Katharina Heyden, Friedrich W. Horn, Stephen Hultgren, Christine Jacobi, Jeremiah J. Johnston, Thomas Kazen, Chris Keith, John S. Kloppenborg, Bernd Kollmann, Michael Labahn, Hermut Löhr, Steve Mason, Tobias Nicklas, Markus Öhler, Martin Ohst, Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer, James Carleton Paget, Rachel Schär, Eckart David Schmidt, Jens Schröter, Daniel R. Schwartz, Markus Tiwald, David du Toit, Joseph Verheyden, Samuel Vollenweider, Ulrich Volp, Annette Weissenrieder, Michael Wolter, Jürgen K. Zangenberg, Christiane Zimmermann, and Ruben Zimmermann.

About this title

About the Authors

Jens Schröter is professor of New Testament and ancient Christian apocrypha at Humboldt University of Berlin.


Christine Jacobi is visiting professor of New Testament and ancient Christian apocrypha at Humboldt University of Berlin.

There is no author information available at this time.

Dale C. Allison Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. His academic research focuses on the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Judaism, and the history of the interpretation and application of biblical texts. His numerous books include Interpreting Jesus, His numerous books include Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus, Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age, and Interpreting Jesus.

Edition details

• Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802876927
• ISBN 13: 9780802876928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 720
• Editor: Schröter Jens, Jacobi Christine