Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1850s

The page: Historical Jesus Studies--1850s, includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Historical Jesus Studies, made in the second half of the 19th century, or from 1850 to 1899.

• L’enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ / 1855 Berlioz), oratorio
• The Prince of the House of David (1855 Ingraham), novel
• Vie de Jésus (Life of Jesus / 1863 Renan), book
• The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883 Edersheim), book
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880 Wallace), novel
• Cristo alla festa di Purim (Christ at the Feast of Purim / 1887 Bovio), play
• Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (1892 Kähler), book
• Die Predigt Jesu vom Reiche Gottes (Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God / 1892 Weiss), book
• The Horitz Passion Play (1897), film

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Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus had a sensational impact in mid-19th century. Based on the premise that Jesus’ life should be studied critically like that of every other man, Renan interpreted jesus as a teacher of morality, downplaying the apocalyptic and supernatural elements of Gospels narratives.

The interest in Jesus' Jewish background was fostered by the scholarly work of Alfred Edersheim and by the extraordinary success of the novel Ben Hur by Wallace.

Against the "Liberal Theology," Johannes Weiss argued that the proclamation of the Kingdom of God by Jesus should be interpreted in light of Jewish apocalypticism.

More conservative theologians, like Martin Kähler, argued that the "real" Jesus was not the so-called "Historical Jesus" but the Christ proclaimed by the Christian faith.

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  Joseph Holt Ingraham

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  Lew Wallace

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