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The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda. The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel. Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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440

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Historicity, Frühjudentum, Historicity of Jesus Christ, Christologie, Literatur, Sociale aspecten, Bibel, Geschichtlichkeit, Historicité, Zeithintergrund, Archeologische aspecten, Jesus christ

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2009, Princeton University Press
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2009, Princeton University Press
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2006, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Archaeological contributions to the study of Jesus and the Gospels / Jonathan L. Reed
Josephus on John the Baptist and other Jewish prophets of deliverance / Craig A. Evans
Abba and Father: imperial theology in the contexts of Jesus and the Gospels / Mary Rose D'Angelo
Miraculous conceptions and births in Mediterranean antiquity / Charles H. Talbert
First and Second Enoch: a cry against oppression and the promise of deliverance / George W. E. Nickelsburg
Jesus and the Dead Sea scrolls / Peter Flint
The Chreia / David B. Gowler
The Galilean charismatic and Rabbinic piety: the holy man in the Talmudic literature / Alan J. Avery-Peck
Miracle stories: the god Asclepius, the Pythagorean philosophers, and the Roman rulers / Wendy Cotter
The Mithras liturgy / Marvin Meyer
Apuleius of Madauros / Ian H. Henderson
The parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature / Gary G. Porton
The Aesop tradition / Lawrence M. Wills
Targum, Jesus, and the Gospels / Bruce Chilton
The Psalms of Solomon / Joseph L. Trafton
Moral and ritual purity / Jonathan Klawans
Gospel and Talmud / Herbert W. Basser
Philo of Alexandria / Gregory E. Sterling
The law of Roman divorce in the time of Christ / Thomas A. J. McGinn
Associations in the ancient world / John S. Kloppenborg
Anointing traditions / Teresa J. Hornsby
The Passover Haggadah / Calum Carmichael
Joseph and Aseneth: food as an identity marker / Randall D. Chesnutt
The Pliny and Trajan correspondence / Bradley M. Peper and Mark DelCogliano
Imitations of Greek epic in the Gospels / Dennis R. MacDonald
Narratives of noble death / Robert Doran
Isaiah 53:1-12 (Septuagint) / Ben Witherington III
Thallus on the Crucifixion / Dale C. Allison Jr

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Princeton, N.J
Series
Princeton readings in religions

Classifications

Library of Congress
BT303.2 .H4845 2006, BT303.2.H4845 2004

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Pagination
x, 440 p. :
Number of pages
440

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17205419M
ISBN 10
0691009910, 0691009929
ISBN 13
9780691009919, 9780691009926
LCCN
2006012027
OCLC/WorldCat
66527132
Wikidata
Q97016068
Goodreads
815425
7043228

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OL18208401W

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