Feasible Researches in Historical Jesus Tradition: A Critical Response to Chris Keith

In his programmatic article, ‘The Narratives of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus: Current Debates, Prior Debates, and the Goal of Historical Jesus Research', Chris Keith argues for a very clear distinction between two styles or types of historiography (Keith 2016). One searches ‘behind'...

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Main Author: Downing, Francis Gerald 1935- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2017]
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-61
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gospels / Jesus Christus / Historicity / Authenticity / Tradition
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Tradition
B memory theory
B global hypotheses
B Authentic
B Religious Aspects
B Criteria
B Jesus Christ
B Historiography
B Jesus
B Narratives
B KEITH, Chris
B Apocryphal Gospels
B ‘get behind'
B feasible
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Summary:In his programmatic article, ‘The Narratives of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus: Current Debates, Prior Debates, and the Goal of Historical Jesus Research', Chris Keith argues for a very clear distinction between two styles or types of historiography (Keith 2016). One searches ‘behind' the gospel texts for ‘authentic' matter; the other, according to Keith, the only ‘feasible' method, allowing for ‘memory theory' in particular, is to discern how ‘the tradition' developed, and only thence generate theoretical reconstructions of a Jesus who may have originally prompted it. It is argued here that this presents an unsustainable dichotomy, for the historical tradition(s) of the ?rst Christians also themselves ‘lie behind' our texts, and imaginative searches for both Jesus and Jesus traditions have to proceed hand in hand.
ISSN:1745-5294
Reference:Kritik von "The narratives of the Gospels and the historical Jesus (2016)"
Kritik in "Yes and No (2017)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0142064X17723477