The historical Jesus in Jewish-Christian dialogue

Time and place

The campus seminar is scheduled for Friday, 20 March 10.15-12.00 in C332 (check TimeEdit (Links to an external site.) for late changes). [EDIT: The campus seminars for this term have been cancelled.]

The online seminar is scheduled for Friday, 20 March 3.30-5.00 p.m. (local time). You will access it through the conferences page.

If you are unable to attend the seminar (please notify me in advance), you should submit the supplementary assignment here by the final date of the module. After the course period, it will be possible to make late submissions and re-submissions (in case the original submission failed to meet the standards for Pass) by 6 May.

Readings and questions for seminar 5

Read the following literature in advance:

Bruce Chilton, Anthony Le Donne and Jacob Neusner (ed.), Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.

Reflect on the following questions in advance:

Which of the essays in this volume do discuss the historical Jesus, and which of them do rather discuss portrayals and understandings of Jesus in the Gospels or in later theology? Try to relate the essays that are focussed on the historical Jesus to the methodologies that we have discussed previously on this course. What approaches to the question of method in historical Jesus research do these essays take?
Which of the essays have been authored by Jewish scholars, and which of them were written by Christian scholars? Can you detect any tendencies as to how Jewish and Christian researchers, respectively, reconstruct the identity of Jesus?
To what extent do authors in this volume claim that the identity of the historical Jesus is of importance to current Jewish-Christian dialogue? Evaluate their claims! Do you think historical Jesus research actually has had an impact on Jewish-Christian relations? Do you think it should?