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In his foreword, Mike Higton describes Hans W. Frei’s Identity of Jesus Christ as “a book about Jesus of Nazareth. It is not a book about ‘story,’ nor about ‘narrative theology.’ … Rather, this is a book about the way in which Jesus of Nazareth’s identity is rendered by the Gospels—largely the Synoptic Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Luke, and especially in the passion and resurrection...

no knowledge of Jesus’ intentions or disposition as they are embodied in the gospel writer’s convictions concerning him and in the narrative text. To take the matter even further, we shall not dogmatically assume that just because a high degree of speculation is involved, we know nothing concerning Jesus’ own understanding of his identity and mission through these writings about him by other men. Nor shall we dogmatically assert the opposite, which is to say, that we have reliable knowledge of his
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