The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria - Softcover

Theissen, Gerd; Winter, Dagmar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664225373 ISBN 13: 9780664225377

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002

Synopsis

Should the dissimilarity between Jesus and early Christianity or between Jesus and Judaism be the central criteria for the historical Jesus? Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter argue that the criterion of dissimilarity does not do justice to the single most important result of more than two-hundred years of Jesus research: that the historical Jesus belongs to both Judaism and Christianity. The two authors propose a criterion of historical plausibility so that historical phenomenon under question can be considered authentic so long as it can be plausibly understood in its Jewish context and also facilitates a plausible explanation for its later effects in Christian history. This book is a cooperative project between Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen and represents the fruit of many years of their research on the historical Jesus.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerd Theissen is Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. His books include The Religion of the Earliest Churches and The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form.

Dagmar Winter is Associate Vicar at Hexham Abbey and Hexham Deanery Training Officer in Northumberland, England.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0664225373
• ISBN 13: 9780664225377
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344