When we look for statements about Jesus from noncanonical writings of the 1st or 2d century A.D., we are at first disappointed by the lack of references. We have to remember that Jews and pagans of this period, if they were at all aware of a new religious phenomenon on the horizon, would be more […]
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Abstract This essay examines the complex relationship between Shroud of Turin studies and historical Jesus research, exploring how scholars from both domains have approached the potential connections between this controversial artifact and historical reconstructions of Jesus of Nazareth. Through analysis of key scholarly contributions, methodological approaches, and epistemological frameworks, this study reveals significant tensions between
Christians, unfamiliar with post-biblical Jewish religion and the cultural circumstances of first-century Palestine, often entertain an entirely false concept of Jesus’ understanding of God and his relation to him. They assume that the contemporaries of Jesus felt distant from God and did not perceive or address him as their Father and the Father of all
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What has come to be known as the “quest for the historical Jesus” is a child of the eighteenth century and the European Enlightenment. Ever since Albert Schweitzer’s 1906 landmark survey of the (old) quest (translated into English as The Quest of the Historical Jesus), it has become common to mark the beginning of the quest
The Documentary theory is the dominant view of most modern scholars on the formation of the books of the Old Testament.The tradition that one person, Moses, alone wrote the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy presented problems. People observed contradictions in the text. It would report events in a
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