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SANTACLARAUNIVERSITY•OSHERLIFELONGLEARNINGINSTITUTE
WHOWASTHEHISTORICALJESUS?WINTER2012
Instructor:Catherine(Kitty)Murphy ClassTime:W1:30–4:00p.m.Office:Kenna323B Dates:January11–February1Phone:(408)551‑1909 Classroom:LibraryViewing&TapingRoomAEmail:[email protected]
CourseDescriptionJesusofNazarethisapivotalfigureinworldhistory.Butwhatdowereallyknowaboutthemanandtheworldinwhichhelived?WhatdidJesusreallysayanddo?Howwouldwedescribehisdaily life? Whywasthis faithful JewexecutedbytheRomans? Howdorecent archaeological discoveries help us piece together his world? And are these“discoveries” legitimate? Wewill learn about the quests for Jesus, about sifting historyfromour sources, aboutarchaeological sites andartifacts associatedwithhim,andabouttheperspectivesofdifferentfaithsthatdevelopedaboutJesusafterhisdeath.ThefourclasssessionsarearrangedtoanswertwentybasicquestionsaboutthehistoricalJesusanddevelopingbeliefsabouthim. Yourquestionswillbean importantpartof theclassaswell.YouarewelcometobrowsethecourseWebsiteforthisclass,whichwillhavecopiesofslidepresentationsandotherresources:
http://www‑relg‑studies.scu.edu/facstaff/murphy/courses/olli/jesusSchedule
JANUARY11 SOURCES,METHODS,&QUESTS Questions
1.WhatsourcesdowehaveforreconstructingJesus’life?2.Howdoesanhistoriansiftthroughallthisevidence?3.WhathasthequestforthehistoricalJesusfound?4.WhatarethemajorviewstodayofwhoJesuswas?5.IsthequestforahistoricalJesusnecessaryforapersonoffaith?
SuggestedReadingsCatherineM.Murphy,TheHistoricalJesusforDummies(Hoboken,New
Jersey:Wiley,2007),chapters3‑5.GregoryW.Dawes,TheHistoricalJesusQuestion:TheChallengeof
HistorytoReligiousAuthority(Louisville:WestminsterJohnKnox,2001).
‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑,ed.,TheHistoricalJesusQuest:LandmarksintheSearchfortheJesusofHistory(Louisville:WestminsterJohnKnox,2000;original1999).
Amy‑JillLevine,DaleC.Allison,Jr.,andJohnDominicCrossan,eds.,TheHistoricalJesusinContext,PrincetonReadingsinReligions(Princeton,NewJersey:PrincetonUniversityPress,2000).
JonathanL.Reed,ArchaeologyandtheGalileanJesus:ARe‑examinationoftheEvidence(Harrisburg,Pennsylvania:TrinityPressInternational,2000).
RobertE.VanVoorst,JesusOutsidetheNewTestament:AnIntroductiontotheAncientEvidence(GrandRapids,Michigan:WilliamB.Eerdmans,2000).
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JANUARY18 THEPOLITICAL,SOCIAL&ECONOMICCONTEXT,ANDJESUS’EARLYYEARS Questions
1.WhatwaslifelikeinRomanPalestineduringJesus’time?2.WhatdoweknowaboutJesus’childhood?3.Whatdoweknowabouthisfamily?4.WashemarriedtoMaryMagdalene?5.WhataretheseGnosticgospelsthatarealwaysinthenews?
SuggestedReadingsCatherineM.Murphy,TheHistoricalJesusforDummies(Hoboken,New
Jersey:Wiley,2007),chapters6‑9(MaryMagdaleneisdiscussedinchapter10).
InfancyStoriesRaymondE.Brown,TheBirthoftheMessiah:ACommentaryonthe
InfancyNarrativesinMatthewandLuke(NewYork:Image,1979).
RobertJ.Miller,BornDivine:TheBirthsofJesusandOtherSonsofGod(Sonoma,California:PolebridgePress,2003).
‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑,ed.,TheCompleteGospels:AnnotatedScholarsVersion(Sonoma,California:PolebridgePress,1994;original1992).
CharlesH.Talbert,“MiraculousConceptionsandBirthsinMediterraneanAntiquity,”inTheHistoricalJesusinContext(ed.Amy‑JillLevine,DaleC.Allison,Jr.,andJohnDominicCrossan;PrincetonReadingsinReligion;Princeton,NewJersey:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006)79‑86.
Jesus’FemaleCompanionsKathleenE.Corley,WomenandtheHistoricalJesus:FeministMythsof
ChristianOrigins(Sonoma,California:Polebridge,2002).BartD.Ehrman,TruthandFictioninTheDaVinciCode(NewYork:
OxfordUniversityPress,2004).GnosticGospelsElainePagelsandKarenL.King.TheGospelofJudasandtheShapingof
Christianity.NewYork:Viking,2007.JamesM.Robinson,ed.,TheNagHammadiLibrary,3rdrev.ed.(San
Francisco:HarperSanFrancisco1990;originalLeiden:E.J.Brill,1978).
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JANUARY25 WHATJESUSDID&WHATITSIGNIFIEDINROMANPALESTINE Questions
1.WhatwastherelationshipbetweenJesusandJohntheBaptist?2.Howpopularwashe?3.Whatdidhereallysay?4.Didhereallyperformmiracles?5.WhatdidJesusmeanbythe“kingdomofGod”?
SuggestedReadingsCatherineM.Murphy,TheHistoricalJesusforDummies(Hoboken,New
Jersey:Wiley,2007),chapters10‑12.AnImportantResourceKurtAland,ed.,SynopsisoftheFourGospels,9thed.(Stuttgart:Germal
BibleSociety,1989).JohntheBaptistCatherineM.Murphy,JohntheBaptist:ProphetofPurityforaNewAge,
Interfaces(Collegeville,Minnesota:LiturgicalPress/MichaelGlazier,2003).
Jesus’SayingsandMiraclesRobertW.Funk,RoyW.Hoover,andtheJesusSeminar,TheFive
Gospels:TheSearchfortheAuthenticWordsofJesus(NewYork:Macmillan[aPolebridgePressBook],1993).
RobertW.FunkandtheJesusSeminar,TheActsofJesus:TheSearchfortheAuthenticDeedsofJesus(SanFrancisco:HarperSanFrancisco[aPolebridgePressBook],1998).
JohnJ.Pilch,HealingintheNewTestament:InsightsfromMedicalandMediterraneanAnthropology(Minneapolis:Fortress,2000).
GalileeintheTimeofJesusMarkChancey,Greco‑RomanCultureandtheGalileeofJesus,SNTSMS
134(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2006).WilliamHorbury,HerodianJudaismandNewTestamentStudy,WUNT
193(Tübingen:MohrSiebeck,2006).MortenHørningJensen,HerodAntipasinGalilee:TheLiteraryand
ArchaeologicalSourcesontheReignofHerodAntipasandItsSocio‑economicImpactonGalilee,WUNT2/215(Tübingen:MohrSiebeck,2006).
JonathanL.Reed,“ArchaeologicalContributionstotheStudyofJesusandtheGospels,”inTheHistoricalJesusinContext(ed.Amy‑JillLevine,DaleC.Allison,Jr.,andJohnDominicCrossan;PrincetonReadingsinReligion;Princeton,NewJersey:PrincetonUniversityPress,2006)40‑54.
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FEBRUARY1 THEDEATH&AFTERLIFEOFJESUS Questions
1.WhowereJesus’enemies,andwhokilledhim?2.WhywasJesuskilled?3.Didherisefromthedead?4.ArethereanylegitimatearchaeologicalartifactsrelatedtoJesus’life,
deathorresurrection?5.Howdidlaterbeliefsabouthimdevelop?
SuggestedReadingsCatherineM.Murphy,TheHistoricalJesusforDummies(Hoboken,New
Jersey:Wiley,2007),chapters13‑15.MessianicBeliefinJesus’TimeJohnJ.Collins,TheScepterandtheStar:TheMessiahsoftheDeadSea
ScrollsandOtherAncientLiterature,AnchorBibleReferenceLibrary(NewYork:Doubleday,1995).
DeathandResurrectionMarkusBockmuehl,“Resurrection,”inTheCambridgeCompanionto
Jesus(ed.MarkusBockmuehl;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2001).
RaymondE.Brown,DeathoftheMessiah:FromGethsemanetotheGrave,AnchorBible(NewYork:Doubleday,1994).
PaulaFredriksen,JesusofNazareth,KingoftheJews:AJewishLifeandtheEmergenceofChristianity(NewYork:Vintage,1999).
JoelB.Green,“Crucifixion,”inTheCambridgeCompaniontoJesus(ed.MarkusBockmuehl;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2001)87‑101.
GerardS.Sloyan,“TheCrucifixionofJesus:How,Why,andbyWhom?”inWhyJesusDied(ed.MarshallD.Johnson;Facets;Minneapolis:Fortress,2004;editedexcerptofTheCrucifixionofJesus[Minneapolis:Fortress,1995])11‑61,135‑40.
DevelopingBeliefsaboutJesusLarryW.Hurtado,HowonEarthDidJesusBecomeaGod?Historical
QuestionsaboutEarliestDevotiontoJesus(GrandRapids:Eerdmans,2005).
TarifKhalidi,ed.andtrans.,TheMuslimJesus:SayingsandStoriesinIslamicLiterature(Cambridge,Massachusetts:HarvardUniversityPress,2001).
RowanWilliams,“AHistoryofFaithinJesus,”inTheCambridgeCompaniontoJesus(ed.MarkusBockmuehl;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2001)220‑36.
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JesusinArt&FilmLloydBaugh,ImagingtheDivine:JesusandChrist‑FiguresinFilm
(Lanham,Maryland:Sheed&Ward,1997).PaulC.Burns,JesusinTwentiethCenturyLiterature,Art,andMovies,
StudiesinReligion(NewYork:Continuum,2007).KathleenE.CorleyandRobertL.Webb,eds.,JesusandMelGibson’s
ThePassionoftheChrist:TheFilm,theGospelsandtheClaimsofHistory(NewYork:Continuum,2004).
ThomasF.Mathews,TheClashofGods:AReinterpretationofEarlyChristianArt,rev.ed.(Princeton,NewJersey:PrincetonUniversityPress,1999;original,1993).
JaroslavPelikan,TheIllustratedJesusthroughtheCenturies(NewHaven,Connecticut:YaleUniversityPress,1997).
AdeleReinhartz,JesusofHollywood(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2006).
W.BarnesTatum,JesusattheMovies:AGuidetotheFirstHundredYears(Sonoma,California:Polebridge,2004).
RichardWalsh,ReadingtheGospelsintheDark:PortrayalsofJesusinFilm(Harrisburg,Pennsylvania:TrinityPressInternational,2003).