Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
In November 2010, Professor Gregory Sterling opened the joint session between the John, Jesus, and History Group and the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature by correctly acknowledging that the two disjunctions levied by David F. Strauss of Tübingen a century and a half ago were largely accepted by Jesus researchers and New Testament scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries. First, Strauss argued that the Jesus of history must be divorced from the Christ of faith. Second, given some irreconcilable differences between the Synoptics and John, and the three-against-one reality, one must choose between the Synoptics and John. While John may serve theological purposes, so critical scholars have since assumed, the Synoptics have been held to trump the Johannine presentation of Jesus on nearly all historical accounts—at least the important ones.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Paul N. and Clark-Soles, Jaime, "“Glimpses of Jesus Through the Johannine Lens—An Introduction and Overview of John, Jesus, and History, Volume 3”" (2015). Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology. 172.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ccs/172
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Originally published here:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2015/12/and398021.shtml