The Jesus Debate: Modern Historians Investigate the Life of Christ

by Mark Allan Powell

This absorbing and enlightening account of modern Jesus scholarship provides a critical summary of the contemporary arguments. It focuses particularly on the aims, methods and conclusions of such important contributos as Robert Funk, Marcus Borg, E.P. Sanders, John Meier, and John Dominic Crossan.

Genres: History

240 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Al · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read and a fine introduction to the topic.

I appreciated the distinction that the author makes between history and theology.

That is, Powell distinguishes (correctly, in my mind) between the academic discipline of history and the belief system that may inform and surround any individual historian's activity.