Skip to main content
T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
Search all titles
  • Search all titles

  • Search all collections

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account

    • Logout

  • Search all titles
  • Search all collections
loading

Is This Not The Carpenter?

DOI link for Is This Not The Carpenter?

Is This Not The Carpenter? book

The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus

Is This Not The Carpenter?

DOI link for Is This Not The Carpenter?

Is This Not The Carpenter? book

The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
Edited ByThomas L. Thompson, Thomas S. Verenna
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 19 September 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315539225
Pages 290 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315539225
SubjectsHumanities
Share
Share

Get Citation

Thompson, T. (Ed.), Verenna, T. (Ed.). (2012). Is This Not The Carpenter?. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315539225

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

ByThomas L. Thompson, Thomas S. Verenna

part I|2 pages

Into the Well of Historical Jesus Scholarship

chapter 1|6 pages

A (Very, Very) Short History of Minimalism: From the Chronicler to the Present

chapter 2|24 pages

The German Pestilence: Re-assessing Feuerbach, Strauss and Roland Boer (University of Newcastle)

ByBauer

chapter 3|14 pages

‘Jesus Who Is Called Christ’: References to Jesus outside Christian Sources

chapter 4|8 pages

The Grand Inquisitor and Christ: Why the Church Does Not Want Jesus Niels Peter Lemche (University of Copenhagen)

chapter 5|14 pages

Jesus and the Mythic Mind: An Epistemological Problem

part II|2 pages

Paul and Early Christianity: Historical and Exegetical Investigations

chapter 6|22 pages

Does the Christ Myth Theory Require an Early Date for the Pauline Epistles?

chapter 7|14 pages

Paul: The Oldest Witness to the Historical Jesus Mogens Müller (University of Copenhagen)

chapter 8|30 pages

Born under the Law: Intertextuality and the Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus in Paul’s Epistles

part III|2 pages

The Rewritten Bible and the Life of Jesus

chapter 9|22 pages

Can John’s Gospel Really Be Used to Reconstruct a Life of Jesus? An Assessment of Recent Trends and a Defence of a Traditional View

chapter 10|18 pages

Psalm 72 and Mark 1:12-13: Mythic Evocation in Narratives of the Good King

chapter 11|14 pages

‘Who Is My Neighbour?’: Implicit Use of Old Testament Stories and Motifs in Luke’s Gospel

chapter 12|16 pages

The ‘Īsā Narrative in the Qur’an: The Making of a Prophet

chapter 13|34 pages

Investigating Earliest Christianity without Jesus

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2019 Informa UK Limited