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Deconstructing Jesus (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing Jesus (Hardcover)
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After more than a century of New Testament scholarship, it has
become clear that the Jesus of the gospels is a fictive amalgam,
reflecting the hopes and beliefs of the early Christian community
and revealing very little about the historical Jesus. Over the
millennia since the beginning of Christianity various
congregations, from fundamentalist to liberal, have tended to
produce a Jesus figurehead that functions as a symbolic cloak for
their specific theological agendas.
Through extensive research and fresh textual insights Robert M.
Price paves the way for a new reconstruction of Christian origins.
Moving beyond the work of Burton L. Mack and John Dominic Crossan
on Jesus movements and Christ cults, which shows how the various
Jesus figures may have amalgamated into the patchwork savior of
Christian faith, Price takes an innovative approach. He links the
work of F.C. Baur, Walter Bauer, Helmut Koester, and James M.
Robinson with that of early Christ-myth theorists-two camps of
biblical analysis that have never communicated.
Arguing that perhaps Jesus never existed as a historical figure,
Price maintains an agnostic stance, while putting many puzzles and
scholarly debates in a new light.
He also incorporates neglected parallels from Islam, the Baha'i
Faith, and Buddhism. Deconstructing Jesus provides a valuable
bridge between New Testament scholarship and early freethinkers in
a refreshing cross-fertilization of perspectives.
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