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The Religion of Jesus the Jew
The leading Jewish scholar of the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls trains his attention on Jesus' own religious life—his teaching, preaching, and practice.
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The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith
Jesus of Nazareth died on a cross at the hands of Roman justice around the year 30 C.E. Thousands of others perished in the same way, and many people before...
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The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide
In the continuing quest for the elusive but compelling figure of Jesus of Nazareth, Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz's authoritative yet engaging book is the...
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Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet
Dale Allison's clearly written Jesus of Nazareth will enable people who have followed recent discussions to vindicate and reclaim the central religious...
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The Social Gospel of Jesus: The Kingdom of God in Mediterranean Perspective
A dynamic analysis of Jesus' central proclamation. Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus' proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did...
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The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
A thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination. The epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels has been a highly...
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Crucifixion: In the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross
In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death...
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Encounters with Jesus: The Man in His Place and Time
What was there in Jesus' person, behavior, and words that prompted not only much enthusiasm but also much hostility? This compelling portrait of the man Jesus...
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Jesus and the Powers: Conflict, Covenant, and the Hope of the Poor
Refusing a false dichotomy between "politics" and "religion" in Jesus' world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus' response to the imperial...
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Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus
Engaging the Passion gathers an impressive array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethics--from the first to the twenty-first centuries.
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Jesus and the Message of the New Testament
Joachim Jeremias was one of the most innovative and productive New Testament scholars of the twentieth century. This volume brings together some of his...
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Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q
This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge:...
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The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Simon J. Joseph contends that missing from scholars' various conceptions of the "messiah" are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material-conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus' own self-understanding.
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The Anointed Church: Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized a pneumatological perspective to gain significant insight into the person and life of Christ. The Anointed Church extends this work, providing the first constructive and systematic ecclesiology developed through the approach of a Third Article Theology.
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Messianic Exegesis: Christological Interpretation of the Old Test. in Early Christianity
Professor Juel defends a simple thesis: "The beginnings of Christian reflection can be traced to interpretation of Israel's scriptures, and the major focus...
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The Disciples' Prayer: The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context?
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Jesus and the Spiral of Violence: Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine
From this engrossing portrait of first-century Palestine, Jesus emerges as the catalyst of nonviolent social revolution that anticipates the renewal of...
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Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship
Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...
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Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations
James H. Charlesworth gathers essays from world-renowned archaeologists and biblical scholars to address the current state of knowledge and to consider anew vital questions about the temple's significance for Jesus, for his followers, and for New Testament readers today.
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Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus: A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, story telling, and social memory, on the premise that...
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