Volume 48, Number 18 · November 15, 2001
In Quest of the Historical Jesus
By E.P. Sanders
The Changing Faces of Jesus
by Geza Vermes
Viking/Compass, 324 pp., $25.95
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity
by Paula Fredriksen
Vintage, 352 pp., $14.00 (paper)
For almost one hundred years scholars have used the term 'the quest of the historical Jesus' to refer to the academic effort to recover what can be known of Jesus of Nazareth, who lived in Jewish Palestine approximately between 4 BCE and 30 CE. The quest itself is more than two hundred years old, and it continues today as one of the main topics of New Testament research. Its basic assumption is that the Jesus of history, as a result of theological development, became the Christ of faith, the second person of the Trinity, but that an unadorned Jesus may be found behind or beneath early Christian literature.
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