Bøger af Gerd Theissen

* An updated edition with a new cover * Includes a new afterword from the author * Includes a map of Palestine in the time of Jesus and an appendix on the most important sources on Jesus and his times

Should the dissimilarity between Jesus and early Christianity or between Jesus and Judaism be the central criteria for the historical Jesus? Gerd Theissen and Dagmar Winter argue that the criterion of dissimilarity does not do justice to the single most important result of more than two-hundred years of Jesus research: that the historical Jesus...

A Sociological investigation into the life of the early Church by one of the twentieth-century's leading Biblical Scholars.

The best available textbook on the historical Jesus.

A brilliant collection from the pre-eminent New Testament scholar who wrote The Shadow of the Galilean. He believes that modern sermons are indications that God is alive and getting in touch through the barriers put up by our everyday mentality.

"This is an impressive book. [Theissen] makes use of form criticism, structural analysis, sociological analysis, and history of religious studies to probe the miracle stories in the synoptic gospels, and he offers fresh perspectives on them.... It charts a new course, and all further work on the miracles stories will have to contend with it." -- Arland Hultgren, Asher O. and Carrie Nasby Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary "Theissen is a pioneer who casts his net wide.... Those who preach on the miracle stories can gain a great deal from Theissen's analysis, yet another excellent contribution to the social-scientific study of religion from a talented scholar." -- Anglican Theological Review "The exegete who has been toiling closely on the texts of the synoptic miracle stories will find that this book provides a helpful perspective on the larger hermeneutical issues from the vantage point of structuralism." -- David Tiede, Bernard M. Christiansen Chair in Religion, Augsburg College "[This] study is sophisticated, informative, and methodologically progressive. It will be indispensable for further research on the synoptic miracle stories...." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Gerd Theissen describes the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature, drawing on Max Webers discussion of the evolution of religious organizations. Theissen describes a series of phases in the life of the early Christian movement: the charismatic, the pseudepigraphic, the functional, and the canonic

Why read the Bible? Gerd Theissen uses the wisdom gained from decades of teaching Bible instruction at a state university to address questions of the Bible''s relevance in a postmodern, pluralistic society. He describes the core themes and enduring value of the biblical legacy for anyone seeking to be a well-informed, self-aware, and responsible citizen, and he commends the contributions the Bible can make to interreligious and secular conversation.