Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blomberg, Craig L

Titel

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol. 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2017, Vol.60 (4), p.859-862

Ort / Verlag

Lynchburg: Evangelical Theological Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Throughout this undertaking Meier has aimed to reflect a minimal consensus that he imagines an "unpapal conclave" cloistered in the basement of the Harvard Divinity School library made up of a Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist (and in recent volumes, Muslim) producing, by applying as objectively as possible the standard criteria of authenticity used in historical Jesus research. In light of these ground rules, few of Meier's conclusions in the first four volumes have proved surprising, except in occasional ways that have pleased evangelicals-a ringing endorsement of the miracle tradition overall, especially with Jesus's healings and exorcisms, and a recognition that the emerging picture of Jesus is one of a robust Jewish eschatological prophet with possible hints of a messianic selfconsciousness. Individual Israelites freely enter this covenant relationship and are bound to obedience to their God in response to the salvation he has provided for them.