Month: November 2024

(7) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: RELIGION, VISIONS, AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORICITY by Deane Galbraith

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One of the great underreported sins of New Testament scholarship is the problem that, unless we’re told by the writers, there is no way to tell whether specific interpretive units like the lord’s supper or the empty tomb have their origins as historical memory, lie, rumors, dreams, visions, hearsay, etc. We know in the case … (7) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: RELIGION, VISIONS, AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORICITY by Deane Galbraith

Evaluation of Definitions of the Word “Miracle”- Part 1: Impact, Genus, and Species

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WHERE WE ARE In my previous post, I analyzed eight definitions of the word “miracle” into seven different elements. I am not satisfied with any of these definitions, and in this post I will evaluate these definitions to make clear the problems I see with them. In a later post, I will attempt to construct … Evaluation of Definitions of the Word “Miracle”- Part 1: Impact, Genus, and Species

(6) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Missing Pieces by Mark Goodacre

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Some things mythicists point to is the lack of detail about Jesus in Paul, and Mark as allegorical literature. This, though, needs to be qualified in a way that favors historicity, not mythicism. Paul says he resolved to know nothing among you but Christ and him crucified (1 Cor 2:2), which suggest Paul knew far … (6) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Missing Pieces by Mark Goodacre

(5) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond What is Behind by Chris Keith

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Keith gives an interesting example of how even if we consider something to be true of Jesus, there is so much that we still don’t know. He writes: If I could indict atomistic approaches to the historical Jesus for one thing, it would be that their attempts to recover tradition out of the narrative frameworks … (5) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond What is Behind by Chris Keith

(4) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Biography by Helen K. Bond

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Bond stresses the difficulty in trying to distill historical information about Jesus from the gospels. She writes: Thus the many chreiai in the Gospels are not primarily repositories of oral tradition, but fundamentally literary creations, crafted to take their place in a larger biographical work… There is most likely some historical fact at the core … (4) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Biography by Helen K. Bond

(3) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond The Jewish Jesus Debate by Adele Reinhartz

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One of the interesting things about this essay is some of the anti-Jewish overtones in the gospels may stem from literary need born out of the attempt to present universal saving by Jesus. Reinhartz writes: (1) Although the Four Gospels vary with respect to some of the details, they all portray some level of animosity … (3) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Beyond The Jewish Jesus Debate by Adele Reinhartz

(2) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Reception History by Halvor Moxnes

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Blogging my way through the anthology, Moxnes has the first essay. One tidbit I’d like to highlight is how Jesus challenges societal norms. Moxnes writes: Jesus is calling young men to follow him and leave the patriarchal household and their father (Mark 1:16–20). The new household that Jesus establishes is one without a father (10:28–30); … (2) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Reception History by Halvor Moxnes