Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perceptions: The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research
Overview
This volume explores nearly every facet of Jesus research—from eyewitness criteria to the reliability of memory, from archaeology to psychobiography, from oral traditions to literary sources, and from narrative criticism to Gospel criticism. Bringing together a wide variety of topics and perspectives in one volume, this ambitious collaborative enterprise casts light on important debates and encourages creative links between ideas new and old.
This distinguished collection of articles by internationally renowned Jewish and Christian scholars originates with the Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research. It summarizes the significant advances in understanding Jesus that scholars have made in recent years, chiefly through the development of diverse methodologies. Even readers who are already knowledgeable in the field will discover unique angles from well-known New Testament scholars, and all will be brought up to speed on the current state-of-play within Jesus studies.
Contributors:
- Dale C. Allison Jr.
- Richard Bauckham
- Darrell L. Bock
- James H. Charlesworth
- Craig A. Evans
- Peter W. Flint
- Tom Holmén
- Richard A. Horsley
- Craig Keener
- Ulrich Luz
- Pheme Perkins
- Petr Pokorný
- Brian Rhea
- Gerd Theissen
For more works on the historical Jesus, check out the Eerdmans Historical Jesus Studies Collection (5 vols.)
- Brings together a wide variety of topics and perspectives
- Summarizes the significant advances in understanding Jesus
- Explores the development of diverse methodologies
- Methodologies in Jesus Research
- Archaeology and Topography: Perceiving Jesus in His World
- Jesus within Judaism
- Psychobiography: Jesus within His Contexts
- Sources
- Jesus’ Life and Teaching
Top Highlights
“Güttgemanns’s critique of form criticism purposely addressed the three central issues: first and foremost, the trivialization of the differential nature of oral versus written communication; second, the evolutionary model of oral tradition; and third, the thesis of tradition as generator of the Gospel. In all three areas, he observed, form criticism had developed a model that was unprovable as well as unworkable.” (Page 516)
“Criterion of Embarrassment (or Movement against the Redactional Tendency)” (Page 96)
“Criterion of Rejection and Execution (or Historical Coherence)” (Page 97)
“Criterion of Multiple Attestation, or Cross-Section Method” (Page 94)
“Has the house of Peter and Andrew been found in Capernaum” (Page 126)
- Title: Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perceptions: The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research
- Editors: James H. Charlesworth with Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 1,087
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Historical Jesus
James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has authored or edited over 60 books including Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the Princeton Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls Series.
