Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1920s

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 1920s -- Highlights La storia di Cristo (1921 Papini), novel Yeshu ha-Notsri (1922 Klausner), book The Man Nobody Knows (1925 Burton), nonfiction book Jesus of Nazareth (1925 Klausner / Danby), book (English ed.) Jesus (Jesus and the Word / 1926 Bultmann), book The King of Kings (1927 DeMille), feature film Jesus: A New Biography (1927 Case), book Jesus, the Son of Man (1928 Gibran), poetry The Escaped Cock (1928 Lawrence), novel The Son of Man: The Story of Jesus = Der Menschensohn: Geschichte eines Propheten (1928 Ludwig / Paul), non-fiction (English ed.) From Locke to Reitzenstein: The Historical Investigation of the Origins of Christianity (1929 Salvatorelli), essay Interpreters (1920s) Shirley Jackson Case (1872-1947) Joseph Klausner (1874-1958) Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) Giovanni Papini (1881-1956) Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) Luigi Salvatorelli (1886-1974) Herbert Danby (1889-1953) Kahlil Gibran David Herbert Lawrence

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History of Research (1920s) -- Notes

• 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, published in 1922 in Hebrew and translated in 1925 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."