Jesus of History

FROM JESUS TO CHRIST: THE FIRST CHRISTIANS  
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/
Jesus' Many Faces
Portrait of Jesus' World 
The Story of the Storytellers
The First Christians
Why did Christianity Succeed?

JESUS SEMINAR FORUM 
http://virtualreligion.net/forum/  
Official gateway to the Jesus Seminar and Westar Institute. Updated Feb. 2000.

JESUS OF NAZARETH AS SEEN BY JEWISH WRITERS OF THE XX CENTURY
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_01111997_p-48_en.html Symposium: The Roots of Anti-Judaism in the Christian Environment. Joseph Sievers.    

JESUS AND CHRISTOLOGY 
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/

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Historical Jesus Archives
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/category/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/
About a number of questions people ask: where was he born etc.E

 
CORRECTED JESUS , The
http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9405/articles/revessay.html
Review by Richard B. Hays of  The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. Edited by Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, and The Jesus Seminar. Macmillan.

Jesus Seminar and the Five Gospels
https://www.google.com/#q=Jesus+Seminar+and+the+Five+Gospels+N.T.+Wright
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Five_Gospels.pdf

N. T./ Wright

Historical Truth of the Gospels , The
http://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/PBC_HistTruthFitzmyer.htm
Pontifical Biblical Commission 1964

Analysis of Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Gospels 
http://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/PBC_HistTruthFitzmyer.htm

Joseph A. Fitzmyer SJ

Can we Trust the Gospels?     
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/197/story_19743_2.html

N. T.Wright

Article and links on "Messiah"
http://www.livius.org/men-mh/messiah/messiah00.html 

Historical Jesus 
http://ntgateway.com/Jesus/biblio.htm 
Mark Goodacre. General Resources Course Materials Discussions
Books, Articles & Reviews

XTalk: The Historical Jesus and Early Christian Origins
http://ntgateway.com/xtalk/ 
Homepage of the Moderated Internet Discussion Group for the Academic Study of
the Historical Jesus and the Rise of Christianity

Christ of Faith and History 
http://christoffaithandhistory.blogspot.com/

Collection of links to this subject

Historical Jesus Theories 
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/theories.html

By Peter Kirby. Various authors are listed according to categories, some (e.g., Meier, Crossan, Wright) with multiple links. Also, some have short summaries. An extensive and very useful list.

"Things That Matter": Historical Jesus Studies in the New Millennium
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=333  
Mark Allen Powell, Society of Biblical Literaatue

Archaeology and the Historical Jesus  
http://www.sbl-site.org/Article.aspx?ArticleId=335
Craig Evans. Society of Biblical Literature

Historical Jesus Archives
Jesus/Historical Jesus 
http://www.bibleinterp.com/Archives/news_HistoricalJesus.htm
From The Bible and Interpretation

Jesus and the Gospels --- What Really Happened? 
http://www.slate.com/id/2132974/?nav=navoa
Exchange between Larry Hurtado, Alan Segal and John S. Kloggpenborg

The Mamzer Jesus and His Birth
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2005/10/chi308012.shtml
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Chilton_Mamzer_Jesus_Birth.shtml
Bruce Chilton

Assessing Progress in the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus
http://craigaevans.com/Third_Quest.rev.pdf  
Craig A. Evans

Historical Jesus: N.T. Gateway
http://www.ntgateway.com/Jesus/
Mark Goodacre

Mighty Deeds of Jesus    
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/143/story_14365_1.html
Marcus Borg. Views Nature Miracles as symbolic and as parables about Jesus.

The Jesus Dynasty
http://www.jesusdynasty.com/
James Tabor

Jesus'  Family Tree   
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/tree.html
Jesus and His World by John J Rousseau and Rami Arav, Fortress 1995

Jesus Seminar and the Five Gospels
https://archive.org/stream/WrightFiveGospels/Wright_Five_Gospels_djvu.txt
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Five_Gospels.pdf

N. T./ Wright

How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong
https://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/the-christian-paradox/    
http://www.yuricareport.com/Religion/ChristianParadoxGetsJesusWrong.html 
Bill McKibben

Meier's Unpapal Conclave: An Experiment (I)   
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2006/05/meiers-unpapal-conclave-experiment-i.html

Testimonium Flavianum   
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=John+Meier+Testimonium+Flavianum&btnG=Google+Search
Flavius Josephus and testimony about Jesus Christ.

How Did Jesus Become a God?   
http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5145_5414.pdf
Larry Hurtado
,
How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus

Uniqueness of Jesus   
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/uniqueness_sanders.pdf
E. P. Sanders

Vermes (Geza) review of Ratzinger Jesus book
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/12/jesus-nazareth-pope-benedict-review

 

Non Christian sources for Jesus
https://bible.org/article/ancient-evidence-jesus-non-christian-sources  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus#Greco-Roman_sources
http://bible.org/article/ancient-evidence-jesus-non-christian-sources

The Historical Jesus and Christian Theology   
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Historical_Jesus.htm
N. T. Wright

The Real Historical Jesus   
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/keener357924.shtml
Craig Keener

Jesus of History - Luke T.Johnson vs B. B. Scott and  Adela Y.Collins  America 2010
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12404
Johnson
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12431
Scott and Collins

Messiah

Messiah   
http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/05/logos-lecture-did-jews-in-jesus-day.html
Mark Goodacre. Did Jews in Jesus' day expect a Messiah

Messianic Hopes and Messianic Figures in Late Antiquity   
http://www.ucalgary.ca/christchair/files/christchair/Evans%20Messianic%20Hopes.pdf
Craig A. Evans

Messiah: Collection of article   
http://www.livius.org/men-mh/messiah/messiah00.html#overview

 

Films

Bible Films 
http://biblefilms.blogspot.com/
Matt Page

Jesus in the movies   
http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2007/05/jesus-gospels-and-cinematic-imagination.html


References
See The Bible Today, "Biblical Faith and Film," January-February 2008 issue.
Lloyd Baugh, S.J., Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film, Kansas Ctiy: Sheed & Ward, 1998.

 

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