Complete Index Blogging The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus Anthology Of Essays

In 2011 I was searching for scholarship engaging Christ Myth Theorist Earl Doherty, who argued Jesus never existed, and I found Prof James McGrath’s blog where he was critically blogging through Doherty’s book.  For example:

Chapter 1 of Earl Doherty’s Jesus: Neither God Nor Man

This year as Public Theology/Philosophy, I tried blogging through “The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus (2024).”  I took 1 to a few excerpts from each chapter and did a little commentary.  Hopefully people will be inspired to read this great book:

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

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

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

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

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

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

(8) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Myth and Mythmaking by Stephen Young

(9) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: The Late Latin Quest by Paula Fredriksen

(10) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Chartism and the Forgotten Quests by James Crossley

(11) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Fame and Aura by Matthew G. Whitlock

(12) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Networks by John Kloppenborg

(13) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Scribal Galilee by Sarah Rollens

(14) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Synagogues by Anders Runesson

(15) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Armies and Soldiers by Christopher Zeichmann

(16) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Class Conflict by Robert Myles

(17) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Textiles, Sustenance, and Economy by Janelle Peters

(18) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: City and Country by Robyn Faith Walsh

(19) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Galilee and Jerusalem by Tucker Ferda

(20) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Death and Martyrdom by Michael Barber

(21) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Sexuality by Amy-Jill Levine

(22) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Spirit World by Giovanni B. Bazzana

(23) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: APOCALYPTICISM AND MILLENARIANISM by James Crossley

(24) The Next Quest For The Historical Jesus: Violence and Trauma by Nathan Shedd

APPLICATION:

(2/2) Did Jesus Exist? Jacob Berman vs Godless Engineer

Did Jesus Exist? Jacob Berman vs Godless Engineer

Merry Sithmas and Happy Leaving the Pew Year: Cutting Jesus Off At The Arms With my Top Favorite Post of the Year

Merry Midrash: A Late Christmas Present with Dr Robert M Price

Christmas and Genealogies: The Adoption of Jesus by Joseph in Matthew and Luke

Recent Online Debates on The Christ Myth Theory

Response To Richard Carrier And The Christ Myth Theory

(2/2) Response To Richard Carrier And The Christ Myth Theory

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS SERIES:

(1/4) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Continental/Analytic Philosophy Divide

(Part 2 of 4) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Continental/Analytic Philosophy Divide

(Part 3/4, AFTERWORD) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Christ Myth Theory and the Lord’s Supper

(Appendix) Christianity, A Question of Reasoning: The Christ Myth Theory and the Lord’s Supper

(1/2) Does Literary Imitation Suggest Christ Never Existed?

Does Literary Imitation Suggest Christ Never Existed: The Trump Lens (2/2)?

SHORT INDEX OF RELATED PHILOSOPHY POSTS:

The Joy of Philosophy (Postscript and Poetry)

MY ESSAYS

  1. A Critique of the Penal Substitution Interpretation of the Cross
  2. Justified Lying and the Bible
  3. A Critique of the Christ Myth Theory
  4. Robyn Faith Walsh and Christianity as Ancient Literary Practice
  5. Robyn Faith Walsh and Christianity with Moral Influence
  6. Robyn Faith Walsh and Paul
  7. Religion as Undue Influence