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Who was Jesus, really? In these pages Robinson, one of the premier scholars of the New Testament and the Sayings Gospel Q, asks what we can know of Jesus from what many believe was the earliest written source behind the Gospels. Surprising insights abound and the author includes an autobiographical essay charting the important currents in New Testament scholarship over the last fifty years. The book also includes a translation of Q.
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James M. Robinson is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Claremont Graduate University and the Director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. He is the editor of the Nag Hammadi Library and the author of numerous books.
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He first became known for his New Quest of the Historical Jesus and (with John Cobb) the trilogy on New Frontiers in Theology: The Later Heidegger and Theology, The New Hermeneutic, and Theology as History. He edited for UNESCO The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, in eleven volumes accompanied by a one-volume English translation, The Nag Hammadi Library in English, and a critical edition, The Coptic Gnostic Library (in seventeen volumes).
As co-chair of an International Q Project co-sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature and the Claremont Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, he edited (with John Kloppenborg and Paul Hoffmann) The Critical Edition of Q, a Hermeneia Supplement. He is also the editor of the Facets volume The Sayings of Jesus: The Sayings Gospel Q in English. Robinson is a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.
"...Robinson elaborates a portrait of the historical Jesus and his utopian vision of the Kingdom of God..." -- John S. Kloppenborg, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
"...a series of classic essays by one of this generation's most creative minds." -- Stephen J. Patterson, Professor New Testament, Eden Theological Seminary
"...a series of classic essays by one of this generation's most creative minds." -- Stephen J. Patterson, Professor New Testament, Eden Theological Seminary
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