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The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus

Beschreibung

This Encyclopedia brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, the acts, and the events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world's central religions. This kind of historiography is not biography. The historical study of the Jesus stories and the transmission of these stories through time have been of seminal importance to historians of religion. Critical historical examination has provided a way for scholars of Christianity for centuries to analyze the roots of legend and religion in a way that allows scholars an escape from the confines of dogma, belief, and theological interpretation. In recent years, historical Jesus studies have opened up important discussions concerning anti-Semitism and early Christianity and the political and ideological filtering of the Jesus story of early Christianity through the Roman empire and beyond.

Entries will cover the classical studies that initiated the new historiography, the theoretical discussions about authenticating the historical record, the examination of sources that have led to the western understanding of Jesus' teachings and disseminated myth of the events concerning Jesus' birth and death.

Subject areas include:

the history of the historical study of the New Testament: major contributors and their workstheoretical issues and conceptsmethodologies and criteriahistorical genres and rhetorical styles in the story of Jesushistorical and rhetorical context of martyrdom and messianismhistorical teachings of Jesusteachings within historical context of ethicstitles of Jesushistorical events in the life of Jesushistorical figures in the life of Jesushistorical use of Biblical figures referenced in the Gospelsplaces and regionsinstitutionsthe history of the New Testament within the culture, politics, and law of the Roman Empire.

Autor

New Testament scholar, Craig Evans, is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies. After teaching one year at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in Biblical Studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Author and editor of more than sixty books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Professor Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Yale and other universities, colleges, seminaries and museums, such as the Field Museum in Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the Jesus, Archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible. Along with countless interviews on radio networks across Canada and the US, Evans has been seen on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television and others. He also has served as a consultant for the National Geographic Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 750
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9780415880886
• ISBN-10: 0415880882
• Artikelnr.: 29210897

Rezensionen

'In this encyclopedia, some 227 entries address "all of the areas involved in the study of the historical Jesus."' - Christopher McConnell, Booklist

'Appropriate for theological libraries and research collections.' - Christopher McConnell, Booklist

'An attractive addition to the theological collection for a library prepared and able to offer a range of related works for lending' - Reference Reviews

'In this encyclopedia, some 227 entries address "all of the areas involved in the study of the historical Jesus."' - Christopher McConnell, Booklist

'Appropriate for theological libraries and research collections.' - Christopher McConnell, Booklist

'An attractive addition to the theological collection for a library prepared and able to offer a range of related works for lending' - Reference Reviews