Historical Jesus Quest

Arnold Friberg, Realist Painter, Is Dead at 96
The artist, perhaps best known for “The Prayer at Valley Forge” (depicting a kneeling Washington), rendered subjects from sports, religion and British royalty, among others.
“Quests” for the historical Jesus.

The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ $0.99 Around the world over the centuries, much has been written about religion, its meaning, its relevance and contribution to humanity. In the West particularly, sizable tomes have been composed speculating upon the nature and historical background of one of the main characters of Western religions, Jesus Christ. Many have tried to dig into the precious few clues as to Jesus’s identity and come up wit…

Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus $11.51 An essential work on historical methodsAlmost all experts agree that the Jesus of the Bible is a composite of myth, legend, and some historical evidence. So what can we know about the real Jesus? For more than one hundred fifty years, scholars have attempted to answer this question. Unfortunately, the “Quest for the Historical Jesus” has produced as many different images of the original Jesus as t…

The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form $11.10 First published in 1987 by Fortress Press, this 20th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller includes a new Afterword from the author. Here, in narrative form, is an account of the activity of Jesus of Nazareth, scrupulously constructed so that it does not undercut the insights of New Testament scholarship. What makes it different from other such attempts is that Jesus never actually appear…