Author: Frederick Fyvie Bruce
Publisher: IVP Academic
Keywords: jesus, library, sayings, hard
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1983-06
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0877849277
ISBN-13: 9780877849278

F.F. Bruce examines seventy of the hard saying of Jesus to clear away the cultural and historical difficulties which keep us from grappling with the real challenge of Jesus’ message. Evident is Bruce’s keen evangelical scholarship and pastoral insight.

Author: Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
Publisher: Trinity Press
Keywords: jesus, missing, christianity, reclaiming
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1563383624
ISBN-13: 9781563383625

For the last ten years scholars such as Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, and Luke Timothy Johnson have dominated the popular conversation about the nature of Jesus of Nazareth. In the process, the historical figure known as Jesus has been repeatedly separated from the Christ of faith, worshipped in the Christian tradition. This practice, however, is not new. The Gospel writers themselves sometimes misrepresented Jesus in order to further their own particular understandings or agendas. Consequently, writes Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Christianity, both in content and actual practice, is radically

Author: W. Barnes Tatum
Publisher: Polebridge Press
Keywords: jesus, seminar, report, john, baptist
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1994-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0944344429
ISBN-13: 9780944344422

Who was John the Baptist? What was the relationship of Jesus to John? What message did John proclaim? Did Jesus repeat John’s message or did he devise one of his own? These and other questions concerning the historical John the Baptist and Jesus are answered in this provocative and lucid book. The Jesus Seminar has considered all the historical evidence related to John the Baptist found in the gospels, Josephus, the documents known as the Pseudo-Clementines, and the traces of the Baptist tradition preserved in Mandaeism, a baptizing sect that continues to exist in southern Iraq and ne

Author: Robert W. Funk
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: jesus, authentic, words, search, really, gospels, five
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1997-01-29
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 006063040X
ISBN-13: 9780060630409

Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah?Did he promise to return and usher in a new age?How did Jesus envision the Kingdom of God?The Five Gospels answers these questions in a bold, dynamic work that will startle traditional readers of the Bible and rekindle interest in it among secular skeptics. In 1985 the Jesus Seminar, comprising a distinguished group of biblical scholars, was founded by Robert W. Funk. They embarked on a new translation and assessment of the gospels, including the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas. In pursuit of the historical Jesus, they used their collective expertise to d

Author: Harold Remu
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: jesus, understanding, healer
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-04-13
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521585740
ISBN-13: 9780521585743

This book presents in readable, nontechnical language the findings of the latest biblical scholarship on one important aspect of "who Jesus was"--Jesus as healer. It guides readers through the New Testament’s portraits of Jesus, setting the stage for these portraits by looking at sickness and its treatment in Jesus’ day. The author concludes with a carefully weighed answer to the question "did Jesus really heal?", and offers topics for discussion and suggestions for further reading that allow the interested reader to explore the subject in more detail.Book DescriptionThis book pres

Author: Scot McKnight
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Keywords: jesus, theory, atonement, historiography, death, historical
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1932792295
ISBN-13: 9781932792294

Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus’ own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of God.

Author: Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: jesus, christianity, earliest, christ, lord, devotion
Number of Pages: 746
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0802831672
ISBN-13: 9780802831675

This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century. "Lord Jesus Christ" is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm Bousset’s "Kyrios Christos" (1913) as the standard work on the subject. Larry Hurtado, widely respected for his previous contributions to the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, offers the best view to date of how the first Christians saw and reverence