Bockmuehl - The Cambridge Companion to Jesus

This Companion takes as its starting point the realisation that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history, a man like any other man. History, literature, theology and the dynamic of a living, worldwide religious reality all appropriately impinge on the study of Jesus.

The two parts roughly correspond to the interdependent tasks of historical description and critical and theological reflection. The book incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus the Jew with the bigger issues of critical method, the story of Christian faith and study, and Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam.

Written by seventeen leading international scholars, the book encourages students of the historical Jesus to discover the vital contribution of theology, and students of doctrine to engage the Christ of faith as Jesus the first-century Jew.

Markus Bockmuehl is a Reader in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He is the author of Revelation and mystery in ancient Judaism and Pauline Christianity (1990), This Jesus: martyr, Lord, Messiah (1994), The Epistle to the Philippians (1997) and Jewish law in Gentile churches: halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics (2000).

A series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies. Each volume contains specially commissioned chapters by international scholars which provide an accessible and stimulating introduction to the subject for new readers and non-specialists.

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The Cambridge Companion to Jesus

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Markus Bockmuehl