Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History (Biblia.com)

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What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? And can we answer questions like these on the basis of the Gospels? In Constructing Jesus, internationally-renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus. Allison presents the fruit of several decades of research and contends that the standard...

of the same events, speaking out of partiality for one side or the other or else from imperfect memories” (Hist. 1.22). Because human memory “leaks and dissociates,”3 all of us are, to one degree or another, fabulists, even when we try not to be.4 As modern research abundantly documents, memory often leads us astray.5 Among its many sins are the following, all of which matter for sober, honest study of Jesus: 1. To recollect is not to play back a tape. Memory, at least long-term memory, is reconstructive

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