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Faith and History
The Real Face of Jesus. Popular Mechanics. December 2002
http://popularmechanics.com/science/research/2002/12/real_face_jesus/index.phtml
From Jesus to Christ
An extensive, professionally designed web site accompanying the American PBS television programme of the same name. A marvellous resource full of well-organised, useful information, though with a marked North American bias.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/
The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth. By Ben Witherington III. InterVarsity. 250 pp. $19.99.
The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels. By Luke Timothy Johnson. Harper San Francisco. 192 pp. $22.
Reviewed by Richard B. Hays
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9606/reviews/hays.html
Jesus Seminar Forum - Historical Quest
The Jesus Seminar Forum is an introduction to the research of the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute & a bridge to Jesus scholarship on line.
Quests of the Historical Jesus. Why a Historical Quest? Questers: a Brief History.
Testing the Evidence: Criteria. Describing Jesus: Historical Interpretation ...
http://religion.rutgers.edu/jseminar/
A Portrait of Jesus
Introduction
The Christian faith is a historical faith which emerged from a historical person: Jesus of Nazareth.
History has always informed the Christian faith - creeds, councils, and developing traditions over the centuries have led to present day belief systems.
This study takes a step further back in history to learn more about the historical Jesus.
Who was this man from Galilee and how did he become "the face of God" as Paul describes him in 2 Corinthians 4:6?
Marcus Borg, scholar, Christian, and author of Jesus: A New Vision and Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, uses the terms "pre-Easter Jesus" to talk about the Jesus of history and "post-Easter Jesus" to talk about the Christ of faith.
http://www.aportraitofjesus.org/
Lecture Plan for Historical Jesus Course (see link below)
Dr. Mark Goodacre
1. Introduction
2. History of the Quest
John P. Meier, "The Present State of the ‘Third Quest’ for the Historical Jesus: Loss and Gain", Biblica 80 (1999), pp. 459-487.
3. Materials for the Quest
From Jesus to Christ (Frontline, PBS, 1999), "The Story of the Storytellers"
4. Methods for the Quest
Norman Perrin, "The Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Teaching of Jesus", Chapter 1 in Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus (New York: Harper & Row, 1967)
5. Resetting the Scene
From Jesus to Christ (Frontline, PBS, 1999), "A Portrait of Jesus' World"
6. Jesus' Teaching
Geza Vermes, Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels (London: Collins, 1973), pp. 19-31
7. Jesus and Healing
Cam Howard, A Portrait of Jesus: From Galilean Jew to Face of God (Go to section on "Spirit Dimension")
8. Conflict, Trial and Death
The Search for Jesus (Beliefnet, 2001), Section on "Trial and Crucifixion"
9. Jesus in Film and Fiction
Adele Reinhartz, "Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus", Journal of Religion and Film Vol. 2, Number 2 (Fall 1998)
10. Conclusion: Jesus Inside & Outside the New Testament
http://www.ntgateway.com/courses/jesus/lectures.htm
http://www.ntgateway.com/Jesus/
The Historical Jesus Quest Revisited
The Historical Jesus Quest Revisited. An ignorance of the history of New
Testament scholarship can only lead to a repetition of its mistakes. ...
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/jesusquest.htm
Historical Jesus Quest
A quest for the historical Jesus - useful internet resources in the study
of the historical Jesus. ... Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus: ...
http://historicaljesusquest.com/