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Is This Not The Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus (Copenhagen International Seminar) - Hardcover

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9781845539863: Is This Not The Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus (Copenhagen International Seminar)
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ISBN 10: 1845539869 ISBN 13: 9781845539863
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The historicity of Jesus is now widely accepted and hardly questioned by most scholars. But this assumption disarms biblical texts of much of their power by privileging an historical interpretation which effectively sweeps aside much theological speculation and allusion. Furthermore, the assumption of historicity gathers further assumptions to it, shaping the interpretation of texts, both denying and adding subtext. Scholars are now faced with an endless array of works on the historical Jesus and few question what has been lost through this wide-spread assumption of historicity. Is This Not the Carpenter? presents a very valuable corrective: a literary rereading of the New Testament.

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About the Author

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen.

Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1845539869
ISBN 13 
9781845539863
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
Editor
Thompson Thomas L., Verenna Thomas S.

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