Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History

✍ Scribed by Dale C. Allison Jr.

Publisher: Baker Academic
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 619
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus.

Representing the fruit of several decades of research, this major work questions standard approaches to Jesus studies and rethinks our knowledge of the historical Jesus in light of recent progress in the scientific study of memory. Allison's groundbreaking alternative strategy calls for applying what we know about the function of human memory to our reading of the Gospels in order to "construct Jesus" more soundly.

✦ Table of Contents

Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History / Dale C. Allison Jr.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The General and the Particular: Memories of Jesus
2. More Than a Sage: The Eschatology of Jesus
Excursus 1: The Kingdom of God and the World to Come
Excursus 2: The Continuity between John the Baptist and Jesus
3. More Than a Prophet: The Christology of Jesus
4. More Than an Aphorist: The Discourses of Jesus
5. Death and Memory: The Passion of Jesus
6. Memory and Invention: How Much History?
Bibliography
Ancient Writings Index
Author Index
Subject Index

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