Jesus of History and NT Backgound

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.

ANCIENT JEWISH ACCOUNTS OF JESUS
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/JewishJesus/
Prepared by Alan Humm, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Testimonium Flavianum; Celsus; Tertullian; Yeshu and Joshua b. Perachiah; Simeon b. Azzai; the heresy trial of someone named Yeshu; Toledoth Yeshu

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

CORRECTED JESUS , The
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9405/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
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Five_Gospels.pdf
N. T./ Wright

Historical Truth of the Gospels , The
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/PBCGOSPL.HTM
Pontifical Biblical Commission 1964

Instruction Concerning the Historical Truth of the Gospels
http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/resources/documents/catholic/pbcgospels.htm
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ

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

Historical Jesus, The.
http://ntgateway.com/Jesus/index.htm
Mark Goodacre. Links to sources

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
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/Chilton_Mamzer_Jesus_Birth.htm
Bruce Chilton

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

Historical Jesus: Books, Articles and Reviews
http://ntgateway.com/Jesus/biblio.htm
Mark Goodacre

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
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Five_Gospels.pdf
N. T./ Wright

How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong
http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.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.

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

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

Three items on the Jesus of History May 2007
http://ntgateway.com/weblog/labels/History%20of%20the%20Quest.html
Vermes on Ratzinger book. Jewish Jesus and the Third Quest. Abandoning the Third Quest.

Jesus Creed
http://www.jesuscreed.org/?cat=41
Scott McKnight. "Exploring the significance of Jesus and the Orthodox faith for the 21st century."

Non Christian sources for Jesus
http://www.probe.org/content/view/18/77/
Flavius Josephus, TAcitus, Pliny, Lucian,Talmud,

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

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 i Late Antiquity
http://divinity.mcmaster.ca/pages/jgrchj/volume3/JGRChJ3-1_Evans.pdf
Craig A. Evans

Messiah: Collection of article New March
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

Jesus in Film
http://ntgateway.com/film/
Mark Goodacre. Review of 24 films on Jesus.

References New Feb.
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.