Description: With contributions by known scholars around the world, this volume moves beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research.
Brief description:
Wolfgang Stegemann is Rector and Professor of New Testament at the Augustana Hochschule, Neuendettelsau, Germany, and is co-author of The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century (Fortress Press, 1995) and Jesus and the Hope of the Poor (1986). He is co-editor of The God of the Lowly: Socio-historical Interpretations of the Bible (1984) and The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels (Fortress Press, 2001).