Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1920s

The page: Historical Jesus Studies--1920s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Historical Jesus Studies made in the 1920s, or from 1920 to 1929.

Giovanni Papini

Joseph Klausner

Rudolf Bultmann

Luigi Salvatorelli

The 1920s were characterized by the success of some very popular fictional works on Jesus--La storia di Cristo (1921 Papini), novel; The King of Kings (1927 DeMille), film, Jesus, the Son of Man (1928 Gibran), poetry, and The Escaped Cock (1928 Lawrence), novel. There was now a global market that included authors of different countries, serving an international audience.

Among scholarly works, the most significant contribution was that offered by Joseph Klausner. His Life of Jesus, written in Hebrew from the perspective of an observant Jew and translated into English by Herbert Danby, was the first consistent attempt to reclaim Jesus from the perspective of the Jewish orthodox tradition. However, a general skepticism about the possibility and even the theological significance of the search for the Historical Jesus became dominant, supported by the authority of Rudolf Bultmann, who in his 1926 book on Jesus concluded that the only Jesus we can know is the risen Christ of the Christian faith. Besides his historical existence, virtually nothing can be recovered of the historical Jesus. The quest for the historical Jesus had therefore to be abandoned as both historically impossible and theologically superfluous.

In a long essay published in 1929 in the Harvard Theological Review, Luigi Salvatorelli offered a most detailed survey of "The Historical Investigation of the Origins of Christianity ... from Locke to Reitzenstein."

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  Kahlil Gibran

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  David Herbert Lawrence

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  Cecil B. DeMille

• La storia di Cristo (1921 Papini), novel
• Yeshu ha-Notsri (1922 Klausner), book
• Jesus of Nazareth (1925 Klausner / Danby), book (English ed.)
• Jesus (Jesus and the Word / 1926 Bultmann), book
• The King of Kings (1927 DeMille), film
• Jesus, the Son of Man (1928 Gibran), poetry
• The Escaped Cock (1928 Lawrence), novel
• From Locke to Reitzenstein: The Historical Investigation of the Origins of Christianity (1929 Salvatorelli), essay

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