Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1940s

Historical Jesus Studies (1940s) The page: Historical Jesus Studies--1940s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Historical Jesus Studies made in the 1940s, or from 1940 to 1949. Dorothy L. Sayers Robert Graves Jules Isaac Highlights (1940s) Jesus der Galiläer und das Judentum (1940 Grundmann), book Vita di Gesù Cristo (1941 Ricciotti), book The Man Born to Be King (1941 Sayers), radio-play Contemporary Thinking about Jesus: An Anthology (1944 Kepler), edited volume The Human Life of Jesus (1945 Erskine), nonfiction book King Jesus (1946 Graves), novel The Story of Jesus in the World's Literature (1946 Wagenknecht), book Jésus en son temps (Jesus and His Times / 1947 Daniel-Rops), book Die Gleichnisse Jesu (The Parables of Jesus / 1947 Jeremias), book The Life of Christ = Vita di Gesù Cristo (1947 Ricciotti / Zizzamia), book (English ed.) Witness to the Truth: Christ and His Interpreters (1948 Hamilton), book Unbekannte Jesusworte (Unknown Sayings of Jesus / 1948 Jeremias), book Jésus et Israël (Jesus and Israel / 1948 Isaac), book Jesus = Jesus (1949 Dibelius / Hedrick, Grant), book (English ed.) The Man from Nazareth as His Contemporaries Saw Him (1949 Fosdick), non-fiction The Greatest Story Ever Told (1949 Ousler), novel Interpreters (1940s) Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) Jules Isaac (1877-1963) Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) John Erskine (1879-1951) Giuseppe Ricciotti (1890-1964) Fulton Oursler (1893-1952) Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) Robert Graves (1895-1985) Joachim Jeremias (1900-1979) Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004) Henri Daniel-Rops (1901-1965) Walter Grundmann (1906-1976)

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History of Research (1940s) -- Notes

• As part of the "final solution," Nazi Germany sponsored at Jena the activities of the Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben / Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life (1939-1945), directed by respected German theologian Walter Grundmann. The notion of the "Aryan Jesus" was promoted in Nazi propaganda (notably, Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew / 1940 Hippler), arch-fi documentary), but was not foreign elsewhere, even in democratic Great Britain or America, where anti-Judaism (if not anti-Semitism) had also strong roots.

• In difficult wartimes, religious retelling of the life of Jesus offered some consolation and hope to suffering (Christian) people on both sides. The Life of Jesus by Catholic priest Giuseppe Ricciotti in Italy and the radio-play The Man Born to Be King by playwright Dorothy L. Sayers in England played such role in those years.

• After the war, fiction regained its freedom to surprise and scandalize with King Jesus by Robert Graves. Scholarly activity resumed with the seminal work of Joachim Jeremias on the "lost" sayings of Jesus; see Unbekannte Jesusworte (Unknown Sayings of Jesus / 1948 Jeremias), book. It couldn't be, however, as if nothing had happened. French scholar Jules Isaac not only denounced the influence of Christian anti-Judaism on scholarly research but also exposed the direct responsibilities of the Christian teaching of contempt for the spread of Nazi anti-Semitism and the tragedy of the Holocaust; see Jésus et Israël (Jesus and Israel / 1948 Isaac), book.