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    "Redescribing Christian origins" is a lecture series on the early church. It focuses on what we know about the "historical" Jesus, his teachings, his life. The Jesus Seminar is one group that has endeavored to retrieve the historical Jesus from the gospels.

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    RELS 118 Introduction to the New Testament Redescribing Christian Origins March 23, 2012

    Itinerary Housekeeping Questions/comments More Jesus Seminar (?) Lecture on Redescribing Christian Origins

    Class Goals & Objectives Analyze the ways in which the canon of the Synoptic gospels and Acts may have influenced our view of the early Jesus movement to the detriment of achieving a truly historical perspective Evaluate the probable growth of early Christianity, as well as the rates of literacy within the Jesus movement Reflection: The Historical Jesus Rather than focus on the redactional choices of the individual gospel writers, we asked the question: what can and do we ultimately know about the real (read: historical) Jesus, his teachings, his life. To some extent, you can frame this question as the difference between the historical Jesus and the theological (traditional) Jesus. Corroborating information about early Christianity from pagan, Jewish and other late first-century/early second-century sources is few and far between. The information we can retrieve from these sources is often vague and/or there are serious reasons to question its validity (e.g., Josephus). Some of the criteria scholars use to determine what might be the most historically reliable material on Jesus include: earlier is better; theologizing statements suggesting later, less historical interpretive additions; obvious biases/redactional elements that reveal the literary invention of the author. The Jesus Seminar is one group that has endeavored to retrieve the historical Jesus from the pages of the gospels (including Thomas), to mixed results and reviews.

    Lecture: Redescribing Christian Origins The early Christian Big Bang Christian exceptionalism Theoretical requirements of a redescription project: (1) Religion as a social construct (2) Social formations defining human experience (3) Myths as inventions (4) The importance of rituals (5) Mythmaking and social formation go together Keith Hopkins Christian Number as redescription The problem with tradition

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