Category:Historical Jesus Studies--1700s

The page: Historical Jesus Studies--1700s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Historical Jesus Studies made in the 18th century, or from 1700 to 1799.

Georg Frideric Haendel

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jesus remained an important subject in the arts, as attested especially by the production of numerous oratorios, including Bach's Matthäuspassion, Haendel's Messiah, and the many based on Metastasio's libretto, The Passion of Jesus Christ. In 1768 Scottish preacher John Cameron published what is regarded as the first modern novel on Jesus

The Enlightenment brought about a more rationalistic approach to the gospels. In 1738 Thomas Chubb asserted that one must distinguish between the teaching of Jesus and that of the Apostles who wrote the Gospels, and in 1743 Peter Annet openly dismissed the historicity of the resurrection. By the end of the century the idea emerged that the gospels might not have told the "true" story of Jesus. Maybe Jesus was a political revolutionary, whose failure prompted his reinterpretation as a religious figure (Hermann Samuel Reimarus), or maybe Jesus did not even exist and his biography was a completely mythological construct (Constantin-François Volney).

The unpublished work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in 1795 shows how in light of Emanuel Kant's thought Jesus had become to be interpreted in German philosophical circles as a teacher of a morality founded on reason.

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  Thomas Chubb

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  Constantin-François Volney

• The True Gospel of Jesus Christ Asserted (1738 Chubb), book
• The Messiah (1742 Haendel / Jennens), oratorio
• Von dem Zwecke Jesu und seiner Jünger (On the Aim of Jesus and His Disciples / 1778 Reimarus / Lessing), book
• Das Leben Jesu (Life of Jesus / 1795 Hegel), ms.

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