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Chapter 11 Flashcards

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Influential member of the Jesus Seminar and key advocate of the view that Jesus was a “spirit person” or Jewish mystic. (1924-2015)

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Marcus Borg

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The most influential New Testament scholar of the 20th century. He sought to “demythologize” the New Testament in order to discern its true existential message

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Rudolf Bultmann

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Someone considered to be filled with or to act in the power of the Spirit of God.

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charismatic

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Perspective advocated by E. P. Sanders that first century Judaism was guided not by a works salvation but by a covenant relationship with God established through grace and maintained by Torah observance.

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covenantal nomism

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Various criteria-such as dissimilarity, coherence, and multiple attestation-developed by Jesus scholars to test the authenticity of the words and actions of Jesus.

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criteria of autheticity

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Cofounder of the Jesus Seminar and most influential advocate of the view that Jesus was a cynic-like Jewish peasant.

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John Dominic Crossan

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Countercultural Hellenistic philosophers who rejected the norms of their society and sought to live a simple, unencumbered life. The Jesus Seminar advocated a portrait of Jesus as a ___.

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Cynics

Cynic-like philosopher

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A widely held contemporary portrait of Jesus that views Him as a herald announcing the imminent coming of God’s end-times salvation.

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eschatological prophet

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Feminist theologian and biblical scholar who views Jesus as a wisdom teacher and prophet of Sophia, the personification of Wisdom in the book of Proverbs

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Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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Nineteenth century movement that sought to interpret the life and miracles of Jesus from a rationalistic perspective

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First Quest for the historical Jesus

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Contemporary Jesus scholar who views Jesus as a Jewish eschatological prophet who was arrested and crucified when some of his followers declared Him as Messiah

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Paula Fredriksen

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A 19th century German school of thought that sought to study religion in terms of its evolutionary development from simple animistic or polytheistic religions to complex monotheism

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history of religions school

Religiongeschichteschule

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A distinction sometimes drawn between the historical figure of Jesus and the presently reigning Lord of the church, worshiped by believers today

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Jesus of history
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Christ of faith

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A controversial group established by Robert Funk and John Dominic Crossan that met in the 1980s and 1990s and voted on the sayings of Jesus, finding very little of historical value in the Gospels

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Jesus Seminar

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Ancient holy men of great piety who experienced unique intimacy with God. One of six overlapping contemporary portraits of Jesus.

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Jewish Charismatics

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German New Testament scholar who rejected the historical Jesus quest as misguided, claiming that the only Jesus we can know is the Christ of faith.

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Martin Kahler

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German professor of the New Testament and student of Rudolf Bultmann whose influential 1953 essay launched the New Quest for the historical Jesus.

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Ernst Kasemann

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Prolific author of the multivolume work “A Marginal Jew”, which methodically examines the Jesus tradition for historicity. ___ views Jesus primarily as an eschatological prophet.

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John P. Meier

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A resurgence in historical Jesus research initiated by students of Rudolf Bultmann in the 1950s. Its origin is usually traced to a 1953 lecture by Ernst Kasemann.

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New (Second) Quest for the historical Jesus

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20th century period of historical Jesus studies associated especially with Rudolf Bultmann and marked by extreme skepticism concerning what can be known about the historical Jesus

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No Quest

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A portrait of Jesus that views Him as one who sympathized with Zealot causes and challenged the Roman authorities and Jerusalem’s priestly leadership, resulting in His crucifixion as an insurrectionist.

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political revolutionary

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The philosophical perspective that claims that reason is the sole test of truth

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rationalism

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German professor whose essay, “On the Intention of Jesus and His Disciples”, is often viewed as launching the rationalistic First Quest for the historical Jesus

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Herman Samuel Reimarus

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Key advocate of the view that Jesus was an eschatological prophet in close continuity with the Judaism of His day.

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E. P. Sanders

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German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician whose magisterial Quest of the Historical Jesus criticized the First Quest for merely reimagining Jesus as a 19th century rationalist

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Albert Schweitzer

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A portrait of Jesus, advocated especially by Richard Horsley, that views Him as a prophet working for social transformation, without hierarchy or patriarchy in a community dominated by a colonial-like class struggle

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social revolutionary

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A portrait of Jesus that views Him as a teacher and mystic whose intimacy with God enabled Him to accomplish extraordinary things. This ancient view is advocated today by Marcus Borg

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spirit person

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German scholar who claimed that gospel events were not merely rationalistic events misconstrued by eyewitnesses ( as the First Quest assumed ) but rather myths that had developed over the course of time in the early church

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D. F. Strauss

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A name given to the resurgence in the study of the historical Jesus from the 1980s onward, characterized by a variety of new methodologies and cross-disciplinary research

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Third Quest for the historical Jesus

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Scholar who set out highly influential philosophical principles that effectively ruled out supernatural intervention in human history

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Ernst Troeltsch

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20th century Jesus scholar who reintroduced the ancient portrait of Jesus as a charismatic Jewish miracle worker

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Geza Vermes

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Seeking to place Jesus in his 1st century context, ___ identified Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet expecting the imminent end of the world

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Johannes Weiss

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Contemporary Jesus scholar who views Jesus primarily as a Jewish sage, but also as an eschatological prophet and messianic figure

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Ben Witherington III

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Sought to demonstrate that the gospels were not biographies or history but rather theologically motivated fictions

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William Wrede

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Innovative and influential Jesus scholar who views Jesus as an eschatological prophet restoring God’s people by leading them out of spiritual exile into a new exodus deliverance

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N. T. Wright

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