Bruce Chilton: Rabbi Jesus

Hier geht es zur deutschen Version A fully human destiny that changed the world Bruce Chilton's book "Rabbi Jesus" portrays a fully human destiny what occurred two thousand years ago in ancient Galilee. Chilton precisely depicts the political, social and cultural (Jewish) conditions under which Jesus grew up. Based on several scholarly options Chilton constructs startling and still highly plausible hypotheses about Jesus' psychological and spiritual development. Chilton tries "to understand Jesus on his own terms rather than in the categories of conventional scholarship and theology". Thus Chilton's alternative picture of Jesus challenges and sometimes contradicts traditional concepts. Chilton's Jesus suffers from the same doubts and concerns and struggles with similar problems that beset other people. " Jesus’ force resides in his vulnerability (…) throughout his life. He entices each of us to meet him in that dangerous pla