James H Charlesworth: 4 books
Jesus as Mirrored in John
The Genius in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
James H. Charlesworth begins from a burgeoning point of scholarly consensus: More and more scholars are coming to recognize that the Fourth Gospel is more historically complex than previously thought. Charlesworth outlines two historical horizons within John. On the one hand, there is the Jewish background...
by James H. Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist could have made such a surprising analogy, James H. Charlesworth has spent nearly a decade combing through the vast array...
The Historical Jesus
An Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Recent years have seen an explosion of talk about the historical Jesus from scholarly settings as well as media outlets (including sensational TV documentaries and national magazines). How is the student of the Bible to assess these various claims about Jesus? And what difference does knowledge of his...
The Qumran Psalter
The Thanksgiving Hymns among the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In 68 CE, devout Jews left more than one thousand handwritten documents in caves northwest of the Dead Sea. The cave that most defined the beliefs and hopes of these Jews is Cave I. In it were placed many manuscripts, including two copies of the Qumran Psalter or Thanksgiving Hymns. In 1947, Bedouin...