Jesus, a Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story (Biblia.com)

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In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus-story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses on the religious as well as the social and political environment and examines the ways in which the Jewish religious...

Crossan, undertook the task of ‘rethinking the historical Jesus’ is cautious about ‘objective’ as the proper classification for his study.3 Yet he believes that striving for such an ideal allows one to avoid ‘a rampant subjectivism’. Meier makes the helpful distinction between the ‘real Jesus’ (problematic though that term is with regard to any past figure) and ‘the historical Jesus’. This latter is a modern construct which may, by the use of modern scientific methods, ‘give us fragments of the real

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