The Many Lives of Jesus
Scholarship, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Imagination
Edited by Cristiana Facchini Edited by Annelies Lannoy
A broad comparative approach to the different national and confessional traditions in scholarship on Jesus.
This collection of essays aims to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship on Jesus and early Christianity, which illustrates the width and depth of the questions that critical reflections on the historical Jesus raised in and beyond the field of liberal theology. More precisely, it focuses on Jesus scholarship as practiced in various disciplines and fields that engaged with the academic study of religion. On the other hand, this volume aims for a comprehensive, multi-perspectivist historicization of this scholarship, considering the full range of religious, cultural, racial, political, and national dynamics that hosted the many controversies over the historical Jesus. Divided into five sections, the eleven essays in this book are organized according to guiding themes and a loose chronological structure. The first section revisits the roots of the Forschung in Liberal-Protestant Germany, and especially focuses on the maturation of historical-critical consciousness in the work of Reimarus (and his predecessors), Schleiermacher and Strauss. The second section is concerned with the rise of the “oriental Jesus” against the background of the making of the academic, non-theological study of religion as a scientific discipline. The third section explores how themes related to the historical Jesus and the rise of Christianity were treated among different academic disciplines from the early second half of the nineteenth century onwards. The fourth section explores how the historical Jesus was at the same time further explored by the biblical scholars and theologians who integrated new comparative methods in their research. The fifth section, finally, highlights the cultural-political appropriations that were made of scholarly writings on Jesus, which not rarely constituted the bricks with which radical political movements built their houses.
- Edited by Cristiana Facchini
- Edited by Annelies Lannoy
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Interpretative Issues in the Book of Revelation: Proceedings of the International Conference held at Loyola University, Chicago, March 30-31, 2017
Volume 29
Origines du christianisme. Recherche et enseignement a la Section des sciences religieuses de l’Ecole pratique des Hautes etudes, 1991-2017
Volume 14
Gnosticism and Its Metamorphoses
Dynamics of Development and Reworking of Gnostic Texts and Motifs from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Volume 34
Autorite et memoire
La reception de l'autorite epistolaire de Paul de Tarse du Ier au IIe siecle
Volume 18
Sacred Texts & Sacred Figures
The Reception and Use of Inherited Traditions in Early Christian Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Edmondo F. Lupieri
Volume 25
Apocryphites
Etudes sur les textes et les traditions scripturaires du judaisme et du christianisme anciens
Volume 7
Regards croises sur la pseudepigraphie dans l’Antiquite / Perspectives on Pseudepigraphy in Antiquity
Volume 30
Texts, Practices, and Groups. Multidisciplinary approaches to the history of Jesus’ followers in the first two centuries
First Annual Meeting of Bertinoro (2-4 October 2014)
Volume 10
Les recits de la destruction de Jerusalem (70 ap. J.-C.)
contextes, representations et enjeux
Volume 19
Cristiani, ebrei e pagani
il dibattito sulla Sacra Scrittura tra III e VI secolo - Christians, Jews and Heathens: the Debate on the Holy Scripture between the Third and the Sixth Century
Volume 12
Du createur biblique au demiurge gnostique
Trajectoire et reception du motif du blaspheme de l'Archonte
Volume 15
Jewish-Christianity and the Origins of Islam
Papers presented at the Colloquium held in Washington DC, October 29-31, 2015 (8th ASMEA Conference)
Volume 13
L’invention du protomartyr Etienne
Saintete, pouvoir et controverse dans l'Antiquite (Ier-VIe s.)
Volume 21
La ‘sacerdotalisation’ dans les premiers ecrits mystiques juifs et chretiens
Actes du colloque international tenu a l'Universite de Lausanne du 26 au 28 octobre 2015
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