Meier Doubleday, 1991 - Bible - 484 pages 2 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. What emerges from Meier’s research is a profile of a complicated first-century Palestinian Jew who, far from seeking to abolish the Law, was deeply engaged in debates about its observance. A Marginal Jew: The roots of the problem and the person John P. Volume 4 addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels. Meier 4.28 79 ratings5 reviews No man is an island, not even Jesus, as John Meier writes in Companions and Competitors, the third installment of his four-part series, A Marginal Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume 3 widens the spotlight from Jesus himself to various groups around him, including his followers-the crowds, disciples, and circle of the Twelve-and his competitors-Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Qumranites, Samaritans, the scribes, Herodians, and Zealots. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume III - Companions and Competitors John P. Volume 2 focuses on John the Baptist Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God, and his startling works and teaching. In this definitive book on the real, historical Jesus, one of our foremost biblical scholars meticulously sifts the evidence of 2,000 years to portray. Volume 1 lays out the method to be used in pursuing a critical quest for the historical Jesus and sketches Jesus’ cultural, political, and familial background. £34.37 4 Used from £8.53 1 New from £34.37. Indeed, the author has here sketched out for us the portrait of Jesus for our times. Gowler Oxford College of Emory University. Meier Home Abrahamic Religions Jesus Authors: David B. His well-reasoned account of the life of Jesus is nothing less than startling, as though almost 2,000 years later we were seeing Jesus for the first time as his contemporaries would have seen him-“a marginal Jew”-with all the implications and questions raised by this deliberately provocative title. (PDF) Book Review: A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Vol. Meier pursues the historical Jesus and his impact for today’s world.

In this massive 5-volume exposition of the historical Jesus, noted scholar John P. Who was Jesus? This has been the perennial question of Christians and non-Christians alike for two thousand years. Logos Research Subscription for Schools.

A Marginal Jew by John P. Meier