Life of a Galilean Shaman

Jesus of Nazareth in Anthropological-Historical Perspective

AvPieter F Craffert

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

An anthropological approach to the historical personage of Jesus, offering an intriguing and fruitful alternative to traditional historiographic methods.The aim of historical Jesus research is to identify the authentic material from which the historical figure as a social type underneath the overlay is constructed. Pieter Craffert's anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as cultural artefacts related to this figure. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their communities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-02-25
Mått:153 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:685 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:James Clarke
Antal sidor:470
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780227173206

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Pieter F. Craffert is Professor of New Testament and Chair of the Department of New Testament at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. His other published works include Meeting the Living among the Dead, Mediating Divine Power, and Illness and Healing in the Biblical World.

Innehållsförteckning

List of DiagramsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: A Paradigm Shift in Historical Jesus Historiography1. Historiography beyond Positivism and Postmodernism2. An Analysis of Current Historical Jesus Research3. A New Road for Historical Jesus Research: Cultural Bundubashing4. In the Beginning Was a Social Personage and Cultural ArtifactsPart 2: A Model of Shamanic Figures5. The Shamanic Complex: A Social-Type Model6. Components of a First-Century (Shamanic) Worldview7. The Shamanic Complex and Ancient SocietiesPart 3: Jesus and the Shamanic Complex8. Baptism and Spirit-Possession Experiences9. Healing, Exorcism, and the Control of Spirits10. Teaching, Preaching, and Prophetic Activities11. Constituting a Galilean Shamanic Figure by Means of Infancy Narratives12. Afterlife for Someone Like a Galilean Shamanic FigureConclusion: Someone Like a Galilean Shamanic Figure?AbbreviationsBibliography