A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles

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John P. Meier

A Marginal Jew

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Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles

John P. Meier

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Yale University Press
01 November 1994

Religion & beliefs; The historical Jesus

Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

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This book is the second volume in John Meier's masterful trilogy on the life of Jesus. In it he continues his quest for the answer to the greatest

puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was

Jesus? To answer this Meier imagines the following

scenario: ""Suppose that a Catholic, a

Protestant, a Jew, and an agnostic were locked up in the

bowels of the Harvard Divinity School library... and

not allowed to emerge until they had hammered out

a consensus document on who Jesus of Nazareth was

and what he intended..."". A Marginal

Jew is what Meier thinks that document

would reveal. Volume one concluded with Jesus

approaching adulthood. Now, in this volume, Meier

focuses on the Jesus of our memory and the development

of his ministry. To begin, Meier identifies

Jesus's mentor, the one person who had the greatest

single influence on him, John the Baptist. All of the

Baptist's fiery talk about the end of time had a

powerful effect on the young Jesus and the

formulation of his key symbol of the coming of the

""kingdom of God."" And, finally, we are given a

full investigation of one of the most striking

manifestations of Jesus's message: Jesus's practice

of exorcisms, hearings, and other miracles. In all,

Meier brings to life the story of a man, Jesus,

who by his life and teaching gradually made himself

marginal even to the marginal society that was

first century Palestine.

By: John P. Meier
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 1.588kg
ISBN: 9780300140330
ISBN 10: 0300140339
Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Pages: 1118
Publication Date: 01 November 1994
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Further / Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active