Jesus, criteria, and the demise of authenticity /

Jesus, criteria, and the demise of authenticity / edited by Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne.

"Criteria of authenticity, whose roots go back to before the pioneering work of Albert Schweitzer, have become a unifying feature of the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, finding a prominent and common place in the research of otherwise differing scholars. More recently, however,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Keith, Chris (Editor), Le Donne, Anthony, 1975- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T&T Clark International, [2012]
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Historicity.
Jesus Christ > Historiography.
Jesus Christ
Historicity of Jesus Christ
Historiography
Conference papers and proceedings
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: forty years on / Morna D. Hooker
  • The rise of the quest for an authentic Jesus: an introduction to the crumbling foundations of Jesus research / Anthony Le Donne
  • Part I. Historical methodology and the quest for an authentic Jesus. Chapter 1. The indebtedness of the criteria approach to form criticism and recent attempts to rehabilitate the search for an authentic Jesus / Chris Keith
  • Chapter 2. The criteria of authenticity in Jesus research and historiographical method / Jens Schröter
  • Part II. Specific criteria in the quest for an authentic Jesus. Chapter 3. "Semitic influence on Greek": an authenticating criterion in Jesus research? / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
  • Chapter 4. The criterion of coherence: its development, inevitability, and historiographical limitations / Anthony Le Donne
  • Chapter 5. Saving the quest for authenticity from the criterion of dissimilarity: history and plausability / Dagmar Winter
  • Chapter 6. The embarrassing truth about Jesus: the criterion of embarrassment and the failure of historical authenticity / Rafael Rodríguez
  • Chapter 7. Criticizing the criterion of multiple attestation: the historical Jesus and the question of sources / Mark Goodacre
  • Part III. Reflections on moving past traditional Jesus research. Chapter 8. Why the authentic Jesus is of no use for the church / Scot McKnight
  • Chapter 9. It don't come easy: a history of disillusionment / Dale C. Allison, Jr.
  • The fall of the quest for an authentic Jesus: concluding remarks / Chris Keith.

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