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REL 342. The Historical Jesus Quest


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 010851

A study of the attempts of scholarship since the Enlightenment to discover the so­called historical Jesus. Includes discussion of historiographical problems raised in past and present scholarly “quests” for the historical Jesus, analysis of the relationship between memory and the Jesus traditions, and practice in situating the Gospel materials in the social and political context of ancient Roman Palestine.