William E Arnal: 2 books
by William E. Arnal, Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written within denominationally-affiliated institutions. The book offers the 19th Century...
The Symbolic Jesus
Historical Scholarship, Judaism and the Construction of Contemporary Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
It is widely accepted that Jesus was a Jew. However, both Christian and New Testament scholarship have a strong anti-Jewish history. 'The Symbolic Jesus' presents the controversies surrounding the Jewishness of Jesus. It examines the insistence among historical Jesus scholars that Jesus was a Jew...