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  • 16 - The History of Jesus in Biblical Scholarship

  • from Part III - Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship
  • Edited by Markus Bockmuehl, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
    Published online:
    15 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 265-280

  • Summary

    The chapter gives a broadly chronological account of the ‘quest of the historical Jesus’. The discussion raises questions about the meaning of the term ‘historical Jesus’, the extent to which the ‘quest’ can be divided into self-contained periods of study, and about the purpose of such study, especially when it is approached with different methodologies and presuppositions. Such disputation, it is argued, should encourage an attitude of modesty among scholars involved in the ‘quest.’