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Who On Earth Was Jesus?: The Modern Quest for the Jesus of History | 
 enlarge | Author: David Boulton
Publisher: O Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 488
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1846940184
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.908
EAN: 9781846940187
ASIN: 1846940184
Publication Date: April 25, 2008
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The first fully comprehensive account of the debate between modern scholars on the Jesus of history before he became the Christ of faith. David Boulton surveys all the major schools of historical Jesus scholarship in turn: the liberal Jesus Seminar, the conservative 'New Questers' and the radical skeptics, covering over 30 experts. He lays out the sources, biblical, 'heretical' and secular, taking in the most recent discoveries and explaining where historians agree and disagree in recovering a credible portrait of the man behind 'the greatest story ever told'.
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A Good Survey May 13, 2008
Who On Earth Was Jesus?: The Modern Quest for the Jesus of History
David Boulton has written a fair and balanced survey of the historical Jesus books published over the past forty years or so, a very productive period for this topic. Although he favors the nonapocalyptic Jesus of the Jesus Seminar, he is clear when he expresses such opinion. He rejects the apocalyptic Jesus as not congenial to the modern mind. Unfortunately congeniality is not a criteria of historical truth.
He does a good job of showing that the key distinction between scholars is whether Jesus was or was not an apocalypticist. He points out that those who favor the nonapocalyptic position treat Q and the Coptic Gospel of Thomas as more reliable than do those who favor the apocalyptic position.
As one who finds the apocalyptic position compelling, I would have liked to see coverage of the following books:
Bart D. Ehrman: Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999)
Dale C. Allison: Jesus of Nazareth, Millenarian Prophet (1998)
Amy-Jill Levine: The Misunderstood Jew (2006)
Paula Fredriksen: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews (1999)
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