The End of Biblical Studies by Hector Avalos

Author:Hector Avalos [Avalos, Hector]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-10T18:02:00+00:00

The liberal academic Jesuses differ from the evangelical Jesus by the fact that no supernatural explanations are invoked. Yet the religionism has not disap peared completely. In cases where a more frankly secular view is espoused, it cannot really be deemed successful or to have advanced much beyond Reimarus. But before we look at why current Jesus research has not advanced much beyond the eighteenth century, we must provide a brief sketch of Reimarus's life and work.

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768), a Christian scholar from Hamburg, Germany, is often credited with producing the first modem critical inquiry into the "historical Jesus" in an anonymous work called the Wolfenbuttel Fragments, which appeared in 1774 through 1778.39 His positivism is very much in evidence when he justifies our right to be skeptical of the resurrection:

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