The historical Jesus of the Gospels
By: Craig Keener.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780802862921
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Historicity
Table of contents: title: I. Disparate views about Jesus.; title: The development of Jesus scholarship; title: Jesus the cynic sage?; title: Jesus and Judaism; title: Other gospels?; title: II. The character of the Gospels.; title: The gospels as biographies; title: Luke-Acts as history; title: Ancient historiography as history; title: Ancient historiography as rhetoric; title: The gospels' written sources; title: The gospels' oral sources; title: III. What we learn about Jesus from the best sources.; title: John the Baptist; title: Jesus the Galilean Jew; title: Jesus the teacher; title: Kingdom discipleship; title: Jesus' Jewish ethics; title: Conflicts with other teachers; title: Jesus the prophet; title: Jesus as Messiah?; title: More than an earthly Messiah; title: Confronting and provoking the elite; title: Jesus' arrest and execution; title: The resurrection; title: Appendixes.; title: Zealots and revolutionaries; title: Mack's case for a Wisdom Q; title: Jewish biographical conventions; title: Jesus' sayings about the end; title: John and the Synoptics on Passover chronology; title: Roman participation in Jesus' arrest?; title: Capital authority; title: What really happened at the tomb?; title: Some post-resurrection teachings