After 2000 years, much activity still surrounds the person of
Jesus. Scholars, film makers, novelists, artists, Christians,
humanists, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and many others have
opinions about who Jesus was, as well as on the reliability of the
source documents. Writers from inside and from outside the
Christian tradition express pessimism about our ability to know
very much for sure about Jesus. Others argue that Jesus never
existed. Others are optimistic about our ability to reconstruct
Jesus' life but paint very different pictures of him. Debate
surrounds which sources may be used, why Jesus died, whether he
ever intended to depart from Judaism. Paul's role also emerges as
controversial. Some turn to alternative documents, or interpretive
tools, to decipher the texts. A celibate Jesus, a married Jesus, a
rebel Jesus, a Gnostic Jesus, a failed Jesus, a black Jesus, a
feminist Jesus, are amongst the many images on offer. This study,
which looks at traditional and at alternative sources, traces both
the quest of the historical Jesus within the Christian tradition
and encounters between the Jesus story and the world beyond the
Church. The author asks what agendas, assumptions, human needs do
all these writers take to their studies of Jesus? The book analyzes
a range of insider and outsider images of Jesus, some popular, some
scholarly, some hotly debated. Writers discussed include Marcus
Borg, the Dalai Lama, Abraham Geiger, the Jesus Seminar, Barbara
Thiering, Vivekananda, and Tom Wright. The book should be of equal
interest to students and to general readers.
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