This Jesus

An important challenge to the distinction between the Jesus of History and the Jesus of Faith. Bockmuehl demonstrates that the two are inseparably intertwined. ?Ingran ReviewMarkus Bockmuehl argues that while new vies of Jesus are in theory possible, not all of them are equally probable. He points to one that makes sense within the historical world of Palestinian Judaism and within the faith experience of the New Testament churches.
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This concise but very thought-provoking work on the historical Jesus by Markus Bockmuehl posits that the historical man of Jesus cannot be separated from the Christ of faith. Taking a traditional argument and imprinting it with the finest scholarship, Bockmuehl refers to a wide range of canonical and non-canonical historical texts, ranging from Roman historians Tacitus and xxx to Jewish historian Josephus, and through Christian sources as well as the Gospels. His conclusion suggests that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, but not the Messiah expected by his contemporaries