1. Secularizing Jesus 2. The Problem of Audience 3. The Problem of Gehenna Excursus I: Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Historical Jesus 4. Apocalyptic, Polemic, Apologetics 5. Torah, Urzeit, Endzeit 6. Resurrecting Jesus Excursus II: Joseph of Arimathea Excursus III: The Disciples and Bereavement Index of Scripture Index of Modern Names
Examines the history of the search for the Historical Jesus and argues that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet.
Dale C. Allison, Jr., is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, and the author of many books, including Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History and the International Critical Commentary on James.
'...a truly amazing tour de force.' 'Allison is a fair and
judicious scholar, who is prepared to interact as much with
evangelical scholarship as with more liberal-minded critics and
will not dismiss anything out of hand without a thorough
examination. This is a scholar's book, but will bring great
rewards to those who persevere in reading it.'
*Reg Luhman*
"This is the most interesting and illuminating piece of writing on
the resurrection of Jesus that I have ever read." -Dr. Joel Marcus,
Professor of New Testament & Christian Origins, Duke Divinity
School
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"Dale Allison is one the very best Jesus scholars of our time. The
six essays in this volume show him to be the master of the
pertinent Gospel and early Jewish texts, modern biblical
scholarship, and everything from patristics to modern psychology
and theology. Moreover, they sparkle with his intellectual
independence, fresh insights, and good judgment." --Daniel J.
Harrington, S.J., Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge,
MA
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"Dale Allison is one of the very few scholars today to whom each us
must listen. Some think Jesus was bodily raised, some think
resurrection is the explanation of encounters with Jesus after his
death, and others think it is all balderdash. Resurrecting Jesus is
one book that honest people must read. Belief in the resurrection,
as Allison argues, is less a product of eschatological dissonance
and more likely the cause of that dissonance, and resurrection
language among Jews (as others have argued) transcends belief in
the afterlife. This debate is not likely to die out soon and it
will surely take place with Resurrecting Jesus in hand." Scot
McKnight, Ph.D. Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies North
Park University
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"In these six essays, Dale Allison addresses some of the most
important issues in contemporary research on the historical Jesus.
The essays consistently raise and explore the theological issues
that are related to the historical debates. Allison's breadth of
knowledge, independence of judgment, and intellectual candor make
these essays as stimulating as they are refreshing. The essays are
a worthy companion volume to his earlier Jesus of Nazareth:
Millenarian Prophet."--Gregory E. Sterling, Associate Dean of the
Faculty, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, The
Univeristy of Notre Dame
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"Professor Dale Allison's learned work offers an impressive
contribution to the most important questions regarding Jesus and
Christian origins. Rich with literary and historical detail, finely
nuanced in its assessment of complicted and often very contentious
issues, and here and there written from an autobiographical
perspective, Resurrecting Jesus is a joy to read. Beginning
students and learned scholars alike will gain much from this
engaging book." --Craig A. Evans, Payzant Distinguished Professor
of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College, Wolfvillle, Nova
Scotia
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"Dale Allison has given us a fine and penetrating new assessment of
some vexatious old problems. With characteristic candour he has
blown fresh air into the discussions of Jesus and his audiences,
and the themes of judgement, the Torah and apocalyptic, not to
mention the fantasy of a ‘third quest'. But above all, by drawing
on widespread evidence of reports of post-mortem apparitions and
responses to bereavement, he has broken new ground in the study of
the claim that Jesus was raised from the dead. For its carefulness
in respect of what an historian may or may not legitimately claim,
as well as for its combination of vigour and rigour, this book is a
delight. Very hard to put down!"--David Catchpole, Professor
Emeritus of Theological Studies, University of Exeter, UK
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"Dale Allison has been one of the most stimulating and provocative
contributors to the contemporary debate about (the historical)
Jesus. You may not agree with all his interpretations of motifs and
texts, but you certainly cannot ignore them, since they are
invariably backed by extensive knowledge of historical and social,
textual and bibliographic data, and they challenge any reader to
look afresh at the evidence, and often from a new angle. Here he
dispels the myth of a 'no quest for Jesus' between 1907 and 1953,
presses the implications of Jesus having said different things to
different people, challenges the refusal of the very idea that
Jesus could have believed in hell and the polarisation of the
debate about Jesus' attitude to the law, and in an almost book
length treatment of Jesus' resurrection dispels any easy assumption
that the debate on Jesus' resurrection can be reduced to a sequence
of simple either-ors. And all this with some fascinating excursions
into the byways and cul-de-sacs of the quest and an engagingly
fresh and self-critical honesty."--James D.G. Dunn, Emeritus
Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham,
England.
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"In this important collection of six essays, Allison (holding firm
to his conception of Jesus as a millennial prophet) deals in a
masterful way with several important critical issues and conundrums
in the teaching of Jesus, the Gospels and modern Jesus scholarship,
producing consistently competent, insightful and convincing
results. In dialog with an amazing number of post-enlightenment
authors and an unusually large array of patristic works, Allison
exhibits a striking degree of critical candor and historical
humility in pursuing his historical and exegetical inquiries,
providing occasional autobiographical glimpses of his own
intellectual struggles and faith commitment. Since excellent books
are rare, I would counsel you to go, sell all that thou hast, and
buy this one!"--David E. Aune, Professor of New Testament,
University of Notre Dame
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