Open Access“Historical Jesus” as a Scholarly Problem
Author(s) -
Андрей Сергеевич Десницкий
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
orientalistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0738
pISSN - 2618-7043
DOI - 10.31696/2618-7043-2021-4-3-676-701
Subject(s) - christianity , narrative , context (archaeology) , judaism , history , focus (optics) , historical jesus , point (geometry) , key (lock) , sociology , classics , literature , philosophy , religious studies , theology , art , computer science , physics , archaeology , optics , geometry , mathematics , computer security
The article presents a brief introduction into the modern research area concerning “the quest for historical Jesus” from the scholarly point of view. In the focus is the original Russian literature in its global context. Since Jesus from Nazareth is the key figure for the most widespread religion in the world, i.e. Christianity, the works devoted to him usually step out of the mere scholarly paradigm even if they used scholarly methods, seeking to approve or to disapprove the religious tradition. Recently, however, a lot has been done to describe Jesus as belonging to his own Jewish tradition and, on the other hand, to investigate the development of Jesus narratives in the emerging Christian tradition. Such kind of studies meet the scholar requirements and look promising.