The Historical Jesus Necessity And Limits Of An Inquiry Etienne Nodet by Etienne Nodet B007KXEIRG instant download after payment.

A
very active member of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de
Jérusalem that has done so much to introduce historical criticism into
the believer's reading of the Scriptures, Étienne Nodet proposes here a
beautiful history book.  Certainly, in putting forward to the general
public an accessible synthesis of scholarly and dense works carried out
successfully in these recent years, he spares the reader the
ponderousness of a critical apparatus and consigns to Appendix I the
citation of his principal ancient sources.  He invites the reader to a
fascinating effort of the intelligence and of the heart that constitutes
the profession of a historian: documentation, appraisal of documents,
examining witnesses, comparisons, inductions and deductions; even
textual criticism is sometimes called upon: for example, he is one of
those who postulates the existence of a Western Text of the New
Testament, and draws interesting hypotheses from its comparison with the
standard text of the critical editions.  In a second appendix, not
found in the original French work, he presents a new translation of
Josephus'War of the Jewsfor hints of authentic non-Christian evidence about Jesus and John the Baptist.

Beginning
with the Gospel accounts of the infancy of Jesus, the author opens up
for us the main features of the life of Jesus in a reading that
oscillates between the questioning of the historical reference and the
penetrating understanding of their verbal expression.  Finally, there is
the very suggestive sketch of the figure of James, the brother of the
Lord and the head of the early Jerusalem church.