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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...

the Gospels. Since the criteria of authenticity are built upon this assumption, and devised as a means of separating one from the other, this abandonment problematizes the usage of criteria of authenticity. Although theirs is not the majority position, Allison, Roberts Gaventa, Hays, and Charlesworth are by no means alone in their various assertions concerning scholars’ inability to construct knowledge concerning Jesus apart from the Gospel narratives via criteria of authenticity.44 They are, nonetheless,
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