Research Catalog

Title

The historical Jesus in context / Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison, Jr., and John Dominic Crossan, editors.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Levine, Amy-Jill, 1956-
• Allison, Dale C., Jr., 1955-
• Crossan, John Dominic.

Description

x, 440 p. : maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Princeton readings in religions

Subject

• Jesus Christ > Historicity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Archaeological contributions to the study of Jesus and the Gospels / Jonathan L. Reed -- Josephus on John the Baptist and other Jewish prophets of deliverance / Craig A. Evans -- Abba and Father: imperial theology in the contexts of Jesus and the Gospels / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- Miraculous conceptions and births in Mediterranean antiquity / Charles H. Talbert -- First and Second Enoch: a cry against oppression and the promise of deliverance / George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Jesus and the Dead Sea scrolls / Peter Flint -- The Chreia / David B. Gowler -- The Galilean charismatic and Rabbinic piety: the holy man in the Talmudic literature / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Miracle stories: the god Asclepius, the Pythagorean philosophers, and the Roman rulers / Wendy Cotter -- The Mithras liturgy / Marvin Meyer -- Apuleius of Madauros / Ian H. Henderson -- The parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature / Gary G. Porton -- The Aesop tradition / Lawrence M. Wills -- Targum, Jesus, and the Gospels / Bruce Chilton --
• The Psalms of Solomon / Joseph L. Trafton -- Moral and ritual purity / Jonathan Klawans -- Gospel and Talmud / Herbert W. Basser -- Philo of Alexandria / Gregory E. Sterling -- The law of Roman divorce in the time of Christ / Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Associations in the ancient world / John S. Kloppenborg -- Anointing traditions / Teresa J. Hornsby -- The Passover Haggadah / Calum Carmichael -- Joseph and Aseneth: food as an identity marker / Randall D. Chesnutt -- The Pliny and Trajan correspondence / Bradley M. Peper and Mark DelCogliano -- Imitations of Greek epic in the Gospels / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Narratives of noble death / Robert Doran -- Isaiah 53:1-12 (Septuagint) / Ben Witherington III -- Thallus on the Crucifixion / Dale C. Allison Jr.

Call Number

*PGB 07-576

ISBN

• 0691009910 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780691009919 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0691009929 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780691009926 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006012027
• 9780691009919

OCLC

66527132

Title

The historical Jesus in context / Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison, Jr., and John Dominic Crossan, editors.

Imprint

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

Series

Princeton readings in religions

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Levine, Amy-Jill, 1956-

Allison, Dale C., Jr., 1955-

Crossan, John Dominic.

Other Standard Identifier

9780691009919

Research Call Number

*PGB 07-576