Is This Not The Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus

Thompson, Thomas L.

ISBN 10: 1844657299 / ISBN 13: 9781844657292

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012

About this Item

"Is This Not The Carpenter?" offers readers the most up to date overview of how the historicity of Jesus is examined in contemporary scholarship. Editor(s): Thompson, Thomas L.; Verenna, Thomas S. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HRCA; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464. . 2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Is This Not The Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844657299
• ISBN 13: 9781844657292
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen.

Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University.