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The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Schweitzer, Chapters 1, 3, 5 - 17, 19-20
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Steefen
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November 26, 2019 - 7:26 pm

This thread covers all chapters of The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer except Chapter 18 which has its own thread (I started a while back).

 

Question – Chapter 12:Further Imaginative Lives of Jesus, p. 161 [published 2005, republication of the 2nd English edition]

What is Venturini’s “Non-Miraculous History of the Great Prophet of Nazareth? What are its merits and problems? How many out of five stars would you give that book or would scholars give that book?

Charles Christian Hennell’s work (“An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity”) is Venturini’s work tricked out with a fantastic paraphernalia of learning.

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December 2, 2019 - 6:30 pm

Venturini’s plan connects the life of Jesus with Jewish history and contemporary thought much more closely than any other Life of Jesus.

August Friedrich Gfrorer wrote: Critical History of Primitive Christianity. He describes Christianity as a system which now only maintains itself by the force of custom, after having commended itself to antiquity “by the hope of the mystic Kingdom of the future world and having ruled the middle ages by the fear of the same future.”

p 163

 

Matthew wrote after Luke.

p 163

Interesting, I thought Luke wrote after Matthew.

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December 2, 2019 - 6:41 pm
Hi Dr. Ehrman,
Do you have Matthew and Luke published between 80 and 85 CE with Matthew coming before or after Luke?
(I thought Luke was reacting to Matthew but on 163 of The Quest of the Historical Jesus (Second English Edition), Gfrorer puts Luke before Matthew.)
To me this is a little odd because given Luke’s front matter, I thought one of the earlier gospels he was trying to correct was Matthew and possibly Mark.
2nd Question, was Luke trying to correct Matthew or Mark–or which gospels?
Thank you.
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