Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1950s

Historical Jesus Studies (1950s) The page: Historical Jesus Studies--1950s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Historical Jesus Studies made in the 1950s, or from 1950 to 1959. Ernst Käsemann Annie Jaubert James M. Robinson Highlights (1950s) A Life of Jesus (1950 Goodspeed), book Der Meister (The Master / 1951 Brod), novel Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός = The Last Temptation (1951 Kazantzakis), novel He That Cometh = Han som kommer (1954 @1951 Mowinckel / Anderson), book (English ed.) Jesus von Nazareth (Jesus of Nazareth / 1956 Bornkamm), book The Day Christ Died (1957 Bishop), novel Le Docteur de Justice et Jésus-Christ (Christ and the Teacher of Righteousness / 1957 Carmignac), book La date de la cène (The Date of the Last Supper / 1957 Jaubert), book Life of Christ (1958 Sheen), non-fiction A New Quest of the Historical Jesus (1959 Robinson), book Valtakunnan salaisuus (The Secret of the Kingdom / 1959 Waltari), novel Interpreters (1950s) Edgar J. Goodspeed (1871-1962) Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) Max Brod (1884-1968) Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1969) Günther Bornkamm (1905-1990) Mika Waltari (1908-1979) Annie Jaubert (1912-1980) Jean Carmignac (1914-1986) James M. Robinson (1924-2016)

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History of Research (1950s) -- Notes

• After WW2, time was ripe for a new beginning. The first step was to reissue the works of French scholars Maurice Goguel and Charles Guignebert, which had been overlooked in the 1930s.

• The lecture Ernst Käsemann delivered on October 20, 1953 to an annual gathering of alumni from the University of Marburg, is commonly regarded as the beginning of the Second Quest for the Historical Jesus. Departing from the teachings of his former professor Rudolf Bultmann, Käsemann argued that although the gospels were theological works, they nonetheless may contain some reliable historical memories. A distinction between the historical Jesus and the risen Christ does not make sense as the gospels themselves implies a continuity between these two figures.

• The enormous success of Günther Bornkamm's 1956 book Jesus of Nazareth gave momentum for the second quest. The discovery and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls offered promising contributions to the understanding of ancient Jewish messianism and even to some difficulties in the chronology of the gospels.

• By the end of the decade scholars were persuaded that a new Quest had started (see James M. Robinson).