Product Description: English summary: The New Testament scholar Gerd Theissen discusses criticism of his contributions to New Testament research by a dialogue with his critics in Neutestamentliche Grenzgange. He summarizes his contributions and positions...read more

Product Description: English summary: This book is dedicated to Max Kuchler on his 65th birthday. Renowned scholars from the fields of New and Old Testament and Archaeology have contributed their work on the common thread of Jerusalem to share in Max Kuchler's enthusiasm...read more

Product Description: 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 appears...read more

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 appears. What we find everywhere is his shadow, his effect. Such an approach avoids the usual pitfalls of the genre and lends this story - attributed to a fictitious narrator - an attraction, freshness, and power all its own. Tension and interest are maintained to the end, even for those sated with books about Jesus. Careful documentation in the footnotes shows how much of the narrative is based on ancient sources.

Product Description: Recent contributions to Jesus scholarship by Gerd Theissen, published on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Product Description: There is no better book than this to introduce any reader to the New Testament. Gerd Theissen presents all the main issues straightforwardly, but with a depth of scholarship and brilliance of analysis that is unsurpassed. Gerd Theissen's approach is so interesting and illuminating that anyone considering the New Testament for the first time, and even experienced students, will value this book immeasurably...read more

Product Description: The context of Jesus, his followers, and the early movement What do the social sciences have to contribute to the study of Jesus and the Gospels? This is the fundamental question that these essays all address - from analyses of ancient economics to altered states of consciousness, politics, ritual, kinship, and labeling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Signs of Life follows the signs from God in a world from which he seems to have disappeared. It points o ut how they are often to be found in unexpected places, in t he offensive, the immoral and the absurd. '

Product Description: The best available textbook on the historical Jesus. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The best available textbook on the historical Jesus.

Product Description: I wanted my sermons to bring lifht into darkened lives. I often had specific people and problems in view. I was happy when I suspected that a spark had leapt across. For me ""light"" is and image of enlightenment. There is ""light"" in any constructuve thinking on basic questions of life...read more

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