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Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

This engaging text offers a fresh alternative to standard introductions to Jesus. Combining literary and socio-historical approaches and offering a tightly integrated treatment, a team of highly respected scholars examines how Jesus’ friends and enemies respond to him in the Gospel narratives. This is the first book to introduce readers to the Gospel’s rich portraits of Jesus by surveying the...

not Jesus tradition to be chopped and discarded or retained, but rather Jesus tradition to be explained.34 Further Jesus research claims that Wright’s criterion of double similarity/dissimilarity and Theissen and Winter’s criterion of historical plausibility are not so much challenges to the criterion of dissimilarity as important modifications or shifts of emphasis.35 The manners in which these scholars have advanced the discussion are significant,
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