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Historical Skepticism Concerning the Historical Jesus. Critical Evaluation of Sources.

Summary/Abstract: Parallel with the historical Jesus-research appeared the radical historical skepticism reaching point of denial of the historicity of Jesus. The fist part of the study presents some of the major stages of this skepticism, including important authors and the summary of their ideas. It discusses briefly the works of Bruno Bauer, Van Hoekstra, Allard Pierson, John M. Robertson, Thomas Whittaker, Albert Kalthoff, Arthur Drews and George Albert Weels. The second and main part of the paper, following the study of Gerd Theissen and Anette Merz, presents thirteen customary objections made by historical skepticism, and the possible counter arguments. These objections and arguments embrace the general evaluation of non-Christian sources, the problem of the picture of Jesus depicted by the apostle Paul and the evangelist John, often seen as mythical and unhistorical, the back-projections from the period after Easter, the chronological distance of the Synoptic Gospels, the kerugmatik and remembered nature of the Jesus tradition and its reshaping by the later communities. Finally it deals with the methodology of the Jesus-research, and concludes with some hermeneutical remarks.

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