A 'Very' Self-Conscious Jesus: Trying to Take Responsiblity
Issue: Vol 43 No. 3 (2014)
Journal: Bulletin for the Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v43i3.9
Abstract:
Beside his scholarly contributions to understanding Jesus, early Christian discourses and Jewish law, James Crossley has developed an influential toolkit for critical reflection on the unavoidable ideological embededness of scholarshp on Jesus. Most recently he has exposed the deep permeation of historical studies of Jesus with the neoliberal discourse in which scholars and their institutions operate. Crossley provides a compelling mirror for his readers, but cannot entirely guide us as to why we choose to look and what we hope and fear to see there.
Author: Ian H. Henderson
References :
Arcand, Denys, Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard, Robert Lepage, Guy Dufaux, et al. 1989. Jésus de Montréal. DVD: 2004. Port Washington, NY: Koch Lorber Films.
Bauckham, Richard. 2006. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans.
Bird, Michael F. 2006. "The Peril of Modernizing Jesus and the Crisis of not Contemporizing the Christ." Evangelical Quarterly 78: 291-312.
Crossley, James G. 2009. “Jesus the Jew since 1967.” In Jesus beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity, edited by Halvor Moxnes, Ward Blanton and James G. Crossley, 111-129. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox.
--- 2008. Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox.
--- 2012. Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Quests, Scholarship and Ideology. Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox.
--- 2013a. “A Very Jewish Jesus: Perpetuating the Myth of Superiority.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 11:109-29.
--- 2013b. “Everybody's Happy Nowadays? A Critical Engagement with Key Events and Contemporary Quests for the Historical Jesus.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, 11:224-41.
Henderson, Ian H. 1996. Jesus, Rhetoric, and Law. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Herman, Edward S., and Noam Chomsky. 1988. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books.
Kelley, Shawn. 2002. Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology, and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship. London; New York: Routledge.
Otto, Jennifer Ashley. 2014. “Pythagorean, Predecessor, and Hebrew: Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness in Early Christian Writings.” PhD diss., McGill University.
Ratzinger, Joseph = Benedict. 2007. Jesus of Nazareth from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration. New York: Doubleday.
Wedderburn, Alexander J. M. 2010. Jesus and the Historians. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.