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Jesus: A Very Short Introduction

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28 July 2011

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Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our...

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our era, Bauckham looks at Jewish religion and society in the land of Israel under Roman rule. He explores Jesus' symbolic practices as well as his teachings, looks at his public career and emphasizes how his actions, such as healing and his association with notorious sinners, were just as important as his words. Bauckham writes that Jesus was devoted to the God of Israel, with a special focus on God's fatherly love and compassion, and like every Jewish teacher he expounded the Torah, but did so in his own distinctive way. After a discussion about the way Jesus understood himself and what finally led to his death on a Roman cross, Bauckham concludes by considering the significance Jesus has come to have for Christian faith worldwide.

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Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our...

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our era, Bauckham looks at Jewish religion and society in the land of Israel under Roman rule. He explores Jesus' symbolic practices as well as his teachings, looks at his public career and emphasizes how his actions, such as healing and his association with notorious sinners, were just as important as his words. Bauckham writes that Jesus was devoted to the God of Israel, with a special focus on God's fatherly love and compassion, and like every Jewish teacher he expounded the Torah, but did so in his own distinctive way. After a discussion about the way Jesus understood himself and what finally led to his death on a Roman cross, Bauckham concludes by considering the significance Jesus has come to have for Christian faith worldwide.
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Koorong code 334156
ISBN 9780199575275
Pages 144
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 28 July 2011
Dimensions 8 x 111 x 171mm
Weight 0.122kg
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    Clear historical summary

    If I were to write an intro to Jesus like this, what would I include? Probably use all the controversies surrounding him and answer each one perhaps.

    Baukham does something way better, he just takes you to the 4 gospels (with a chapter on why they make the best sources for info on Jesus) and gives a summary of who they say Jesus is.

    He doesn't let modern controversies crowd out a clear-cut intro to who Jesus claimed to be, whilst retaining the historian's voice that makes this book not at all preachy, but so informative and helpful.

    I do wonder if I will give it to others though, it probably is a bit too ""historical"" and at times he describes some Jewish context things that I would think are a bit too confusing, but maybe that's the strength of it that he includes so much in so few pages.