The Quest for the Historical Jesus

Pursuit of history Jesus John Dominique and Dale Allison: Two different ways to deal with mysterious personality For famous people, Jesus is a little unknown about the history world. The surroundings of this religious person develop mainly around strange phenomena. Most people may be talking about what Jesus represents, or the subject of what he says just above your head. But those who have spent years studying Jesus in a historical context may find it difficult to decide what Jesus really said.

In fact, all modern ancient scholars agree that Jesus is in history, but the pursuit of historical Jesus is about the historical reliability of the gospel and the closeness of Jesus in the Bible in history There is little agreement. Jesus was a Galilean Jew who was baptized by John the Baptist, preaching the word verbally and often called "Rabbi". Jesus and the Jews will discuss the best way to follow, heal God, teach and gather believers. He was arrested by the Jewish authorities, sentenced to trial and handed over to the Roman government. The Roman government was later ordered to be crucified by Roman governor Pontius Pilate. After his death, his followers believed that he grew from the dead, and the communities they formed eventually became the early church.

Under the influence of the new orthodox theology, the pursuit of historical Jesus was in danger of being unrelated to Christian theology. It was thought that it was based on the testimony of the apostles, not Jesus' teaching. But in the 1950s former student Bartmann Ernst Cassman reintroduced the issue of historical Jesus and claimed that Christianity faith must establish continuity between historic Jesus and Christ's faith . In 1956, Günter Bornkamp, ​​the predecessor of another predecessor Bultmann, published a consensus portrait about Jesus with the title "Jesus of Nazareth." However, standard medieval portraits are quite dull and can not take Jesus' Judaism seriously.

Jesus accepts research in various academic disciplines by using various textual criticism methods. In the mainstream historical view, the gospel contains myths and legends, which are religious interpretations of Jesus' life and death. I really lived in the Palestinian Republic of Rome in the 1st century. Although the scholars have different historical nature of the specific events described in Jesus' biblical record, the baptism and crucifixion are based on "almost universal consent" assuming that in the life of Jesus 2 It is one thing. According to historian Alanna Nobbs,