From Jesus to Christ, Paula Fredriksen
From Jesus to Christ, Paula Fredriksen
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From Jesus to Christ
The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, Second Edition

Author: Paula Fredriksen

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 13 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2017


Synopsis

In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached.

A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology.

About Paula Fredriksen

Paula Fredriksen is the Aurelio Professor of Scripture Emerita at Boston University and distinguished visiting professor of comparative religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has published widely on the history of ancient Christianity.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica

This reads like a textbook, which is sometimes fun for me because it reminds me of grad school and I guess I miss suffering through really boring textual analyses. As one would expect, it is very dry and uses big words. Parousia! That's a fun new one! It just means 2nd Coming. In this text you'll fi......more

In choosing to rate Paula Fredriksen’s From Jesus to Christ (Second Edition) four starts I realize it is almost not important which is right. Hers is well thought out and organized book. I most fear that a particularly fundamentalist reader will not have the patience to finish. To begin From Jesus t......more

This is a really thoughtful, meticulous, but relatively easy to read reconstruction of the various versions of Jesus presented in the pauline letters and the four canonical gospels, and how they came to be. Fredriksen contextualizes the different texts in their religious, social and political histor......more