Historical Jesus forum: what can we know?(Forum)(Letter to the...

Skeptic (Altadena, CA);  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......gospel stories about Jesus' arrest, trials...mythical (p. 87) or pure fiction (p. 90). (1) However...If the PNs are pure fiction, then how can studying...happened shortly before Jesus was crucified? The...that the PNs are pure fiction. The assumption...sympathetic ...

Jesus

A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion;      547 words ...Jesus There is comparatively little in the Talmudic literature on Jesus of Nazareth. Uncensored editions of the Babylonian Talmud do contain a few allusions to Jesus and his disciples but these are of a clearly legendary nature...

Script vs. Scripture; You won't mistake 'Jesus' miniseries as Gospel...

The Boston Herald;  May 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Jesus, WBZ-TV (Ch. 4), Sunday and Wednesday, 9 p.m. 2 stars (out of four) Jesus is all the television rage these days, and none of the big networks will be left out. NBC ran Mary, Mother of Jesus in November. ABC is getting into the act with the animated...

Jesus Is Not a Republican: The Religious Right's War on America.(Book...

Reviewer's Bookwatch;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Jesus Is Not a Republican: The Religious Right's War on America...ISBN: 1560257636, $15.95, 368 pp. The title says it all. Jesus was a hunchbacked dwarf psychopath. Republicans are much taller. According to the publisher's blurb, The historical Jesus, by most accounts, was in favor of social justice, ...

The Gospel according to Greeley: Jesus was a hunk

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Was Jesus eye candy? A dreamy Messiah who could walk on water...Greeley caves to appearance-obsessed Americans in Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships With Women. This Jesus heals hearts and melts them, too. "Because he represented...

Sinners in the Hands of a Flexible God.("Jesus in American - a History:...

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...JESUS IN AMERICA--A HISTORY: PERSONAL SAVIOR, CULTURAL HERO, NATIONAL OBSESSION. By RICHARD...THE AMERICA OF the title is the United States, from colonial times to the present. The Jesus of the title is all the things the subtitle says and more. To Jesus' question Who do you say that I am? Americans have ...

Jesus Now and Then

Interpretation;  January 1, 2006 ;     554 words ...Jesus Now and Then by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Could Eerdmans...16.00. ISBN 0-8028-0977-4. BURRIDGE AND GOULD look at the Jesus of history, whose impact on people "then" gave rise to the...Testament and various non-canonical sources, Burridge argues that Jesus of Nazareth existed, was baptized by ...

Debate over life of Jesus continues in a very public way.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 17, 1996 ;     672 words ...Jesus of Nazareth made a clean sweep early this month of Time...a fortune for slam-dunking basketballs. Nor do events of Jesus' life, death and even his reported resurrection constitute...000th anniversary of his birth. (Yes, one sure thing is that Jesus was born in 4 B.C., the obvious oddity stemming from ...

Jesus in His Jewish Context.(Book Review)

Shofar;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Jesus in His Jewish Context, by Geza Vermes. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. 138 pp. $19.00. For...the term emeritus. Known primarily for his translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls into English, Jesus in his Jewish Context is Vermes' fifth book on Jesus. The first and most groundbreaking was Jesus ...

Above the Fray; A historian argues that Jesus was not a social reformer.

The Washington Post;  May 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ...WHAT JESUS MEANT By Garry Wills Viking. 143 pp. $24.95 The Library of Congress holds close to 17,000 books on Jesus, and about the best thing that can be said about Garry Wills's What Jesus Meant is that it is probably not the worst. Wills...

Wills aims to inflame in 'What Jesus Meant'

Rocky Mountain News;  April 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Jesus of Nazareth was a man who shook up and continues to shake up the established order: religious, social and personal. Garry Wills, a prolific and provocative writer, presents such a portrayal of Jesus in What Jesus Meant, a short book that is, in turn, insightful, idiosyncratic and iconoclastic. While ...

Matthew Wright's column: Pure fiction.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  April 29, 2000 ;     28 words ...NICE to see my boss-eyed rival has finally eaten some humble pie and admitted that his report last week that Faye Tozer was quitting Steps was nothing more than a work of pure fiction.

Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels...presidency of the Evangelical Theological Society (2001). Jesus according to Scripture is the second in a set of at least three works on the life of Jesus and the Gospels. The first volume in this series, Studying...

Jesus Christ

The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible;      700+ words ...Jesus Christ. Life and Teaching. Introduction: critical method...the New Testament, we need not attempt to write a life of Jesus in the modern sense of a psychological study. We can hope...concerns. Moreover, these units of material (stories about Jesus, pronouncement stories, miracle stories, parables, and ...

Most of Jesus' written words were ghostwritten, say biblical scholars in...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 11, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Jesus was a man of very few words, according to a stunning new report by a group of 77 biblical scholars who call themselves the Jesus Seminar. Jesus probably did not say about 80 percent of the words attributed to Him in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...