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A Marginal Jew, Rethinking the Historical Jesus: Volume One, the Roots of the Problem and the Person is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book grapples with the greatest puzzle of modern religious scholarship: Who was Jesus? To answer the question, author John P. Meier imagines the following scenario: “Suppose that a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, and an agnostic—all honest historians cognizant of first-century religious movements—were locked up in the bowels of the Harvard Divinity School library, and not allowed to emerge...

and the historical Jesus: they too refer to Jesus on earth. The ambiguity is compounded by the fact that, to a theologian, the very phrase “earthly Jesus” may imply existence in heaven either before the incarnation or after the resurrection.16 Because of this lack of clarity in the concept, I will not use “earthly Jesus” as a major category in this book. One important ramification of these distinctions is that scholars should not write glibly that, in a given story, the Gospels depict or fail to
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