christianity in the making

Volume 1

JESUS REMEMBERED

James D. G. Dunn

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunn, James D. G., 1939–

Jesus remembered / James D. G. Dunn.

p. cm.—(Christianity in the making; v. 1)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8028-3931-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)

1. Jesus Christ—Person and offices. 2. Jesus Christ—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30-600. I. Title. II Series.

BT203.D86 2003

232—dc21

2003049024

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Contents

Preface

1. Christianity in the Making

PART ONE: FAITH AND THE HISTORICAL JESUS

2. Introduction

3. The (Re-)Awakening of Historical Awareness

3.1 The Renaissance

3.2 The Reformation

3.3 Perceptions of Jesus

4. The Flight from Dogma

4.1 The Enlightenment and Modernity

4.2 Exit Revelation and Miracle

4.3 The Liberal Jesus

4.4 The Sources for Critical Reconstruction of the Life of Jesus

4.5 The Collapse of the Liberal Quest

4.6 Jesus in Sociological Perspective

4.7 Re-Enter the Neo-Liberal Jesus

4.8 Conclusion

5. The Flight from History

5.1 The Historical-Critical Method

5.2 The Search for an Invulnerable Area for Faith

5.3 Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976)

5.4 The Second Quest

5.5 A Third Quest?

5.6 Post-Modernism

6. History, Hermeneutics and Faith

6.1 An Ongoing Dialogue

6.2 The Necessity of Historical Inquiry

6.3 What Can History Deliver?

6.4 Hermeneutical Principles

6.5 When Did a Faith Perspective First Influence the Jesus Tradition?

6.6 Two Corollaries

PART TWO: FROM THE GOSPELS TO JESUS

7. The Sources

7.1 External Sources

7.2 The Earliest References to Jesus

7.3 Mark

7.4 Q

7.5 Matthew and Luke

7.6 The Gospel of Thomas

7.7 The Gospel of John

7.8 Other Gospels

7.9 Knowledge of Jesus’ Teaching and Agrapha

8. The Tradition

8.1 Jesus the Founder of Christianity

8.2 The Influence of Prophecy

8.3 Oral Tradition

8.4 The Synoptic Tradition as Oral Tradition—Narratives

8.5 The Synoptic Tradition as Oral Tradition—Teachings

8.6 Oral Transmission

8.7 In Summary

9. The Historical Context

9.1 Misleading Presuppositions about ‘Judaism’

9.2 Defining ‘Judaism’

9.3 The Diversity of Judaism—Judaism from Without

9.4 Jewish Factionalism—Judaism from Within

9.5 The Unity of First-Century Judaism

9.6 Galilean Judaism

9.7 Synagogues and Pharisees in Galilee?

9.8 The Political Context

9.9 An Outline of the Life and Mission of Jesus

10. Through the Gospels to Jesus

10.1 Can a Further Quest Hope to Succeed?

10.2 How to Proceed?

10.3 Thesis and Method

PART THREE: THE MISSION OF JESUS

11. Beginning from the Baptism of John

11.1 Why Not ‘Beginning from Bethlehem’?

11.2 John the Baptizer

11.3 John’s Baptism

11.4 John’s Message

11.5 Jesus’ Anointing ...