The Historical Jesus in Context
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The Historical Jesus in Context

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The Historical Jesus in Context

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The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda.
The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel.
Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781400827374
Topic
Teología y religión
Subtopic
Historia de la religión

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Princeton Readings in Religions
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Archaeological Contributions to the Study of Jesus and the Gospels
  10. Chapter 2: Josephus on John the Baptist and Other Jewish Prophets of Deliverance
  11. Chapter 3: Abba and Father: Imperial Theology in the Contexts of Jesus and the Gospels
  12. Chapter 4: Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean Antiquity
  13. Chapter 5: First and Second Enoch: A Cry against Oppression and the Promise of Deliverance
  14. Chapter 6: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  15. Chapter 7: The Chreia
  16. Chapter 8: The Galilean Charismatic and Rabbinic Piety: The Holy Man in the Talmudic Literature
  17. Chapter 9: Miracle Stories: The God Asclepius, the Pythagorean Philosophers, and the Roman Rulers
  18. Chapter 10: The Mithras Liturgy
  19. Chapter 11: Apuleius of Madauros
  20. Chapter 12: The Parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature
  21. Chapter 13: The Aesop Tradition
  22. Chapter 14: Targum, Jesus, and the Gospels
  23. Chapter 15: The Psalms of Solomon
  24. Chapter 16: Moral and Ritual Purity
  25. Chapter 17: Gospel and Talmud
  26. Chapter 18: Philo of Alexandria
  27. Chapter 19: The Law of Roman Divorce in the Time of Christ
  28. Chapter 20: Associations in the Ancient World
  29. Chapter 21: Anointing Traditions
  30. Chapter 22: The Passover Haggadah
  31. Chapter 23: Joseph and Aseneth: Food as an Identity Marker
  32. Chapter 24: The Pliny and Trajan Correspondence
  33. Chapter 25: Imitations of Greek Epic in the Gospels
  34. Chapter 26: Narratives of Noble Death
  35. Chapter 27: Isaiah 53:1–12 (Septuagint)
  36. Chapter 28: Thallus on the Crucifixion
  37. Maps
  38. Glossary
  39. Index of Ancient Works
  40. Index of Ancient Persons