The Aims of Jesus

by Ben F. Meyer, Tom Wright (Introduction)

Overview

This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published.
Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725242289
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/2002
Series:	Princeton Theological Monograph Series , #48
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	346
File size:	72 MB
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About the Author

Ben Meyer (1927-1995) studied with the Jesuits, his studies taking him to California, Stasbourg, Gottingen, and Rome, where he received his doctorate from the Universita Gregoriana in 1965. He taught briefly at Alma College and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley before joining the faculty at McMaster University in 1969, where he taught in the Department of Religious Studies until 1992. Meyer's areas of specialization included the historical Jesus, the early expansion of the Christian movement, and the hermeneutics of Bernard Lonergan. He authored several important monographs, including 'The Aims of Jesus', 'The Early Christians', 'Critical Realism and the New Testament', 'Christus Faber', 'Reality and Illusion in New Testament Scholarship', and 'Five Speeches that Changed the World'.
Tom Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, and was previously Bishop of Durham. He has lectured and broadcast in many parts of the world. He is the author of over fifty books, Including the monumental works in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God and the popular For Everyone New Testament guides (SPCK).

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Since the 1970s there have been dozens of books on Jesus. I have read most of them, and even written one or two myself. [Meyer's book] is head and shoulders above most of them. . . . I realize now how lucky I was to soak myself in his thought at a formative stage. . . . Not only my thinkinbg and scholarship but also, I discover, my preaching has been vitally informed by this book."
—N. T. Wright, from the Introduction author of Jesus and the Victory of God

Editorial Reviews

"Since the 1970s there have been dozens of books on Jesus. I have read most of them, and even written one or two myself. [Meyer's book] is head and shoulders above most of them. . . . I realize now how lucky I was to soak myself in his thought at a formative stage. . . . Not only my thinkinbg and scholarship but also, I discover, my preaching has been vitally informed by this book."
—N. T. Wright, from the Introduction author of Jesus and the Victory of God

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