TY - BOOK AU - Levine,Amy-Jill,1956- AU - Allison,Dale C. AU - Crossan,John Dominic TI - The Historical Jesus in context SN - 0691009929 AV - BT303.2 .H57 2006 303.2 .H57 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Jesus Christ KW - Historicity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Archaeological contributions to the study of Jesus and the gospels / Jonathan Reed; Josephus on John the Baptist and other Jewish prophets of deliverance/ Craig A. Evans; Abba and Father: imperial theology in the contexts of Jesus and the gospels/ Mary Rose D'Angelo; Miraculous conceptions and births in Mediterranean antiquity/ Charles H. Talbert; First and second Enoch: a cry against oppression and the promise of deliverance/ George W.E. Nickelsburg; Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls/ Peter Flint; The Chreia/ David B. Gowler; The Galilean Charismatic and Rabbinic peity: the holy man in the Talmudic literature/ Alan J. Avery-Peck; Miracle stories: the God asclepius, the pythagorean philosophers, and the Roman rulers/ Wendy Cotter; The Mithras liturgy/ Marvin Meyer; Apluleius of Madauros/ Ian H. Henderson; The parable in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic literature/ Gary G. Porton; The Aesop tradition/ Lawrence M. Wills; Targum, Jesus and the gospels/ Bruce Chilton; The Psalms of Solomon/ Joseph L. Trafton; Moral and ritual purity/ Jonathan Klawans; Gospel and Talmud/ Herbert W. Basser; Philo of Alexandria/ Gregory E. Sterling; The law of Roman divorce in the Time of Christ/ Thomas A.J. McGinn; Associations in the ancient world/ John S. Kloppenborg; Anointing traditions/ Teresa J. Hornsby; The Passover Haggadah/ Calum Carmichael; Josephand Aseneth: Food as an identity marker/ Randall D. Chesnutt; The Pliny and Trajan correspondence/ Bradley M. Peper and Mark DelCogliano; Imitations of Greek Epic in the gospels/ Dennis R. MacDonald; Narratives of Noble Death/ Robert Doran; Isaiah 53:1--12 (Septuagint)/ Ben Witherington III; Thallus on the crucifixion/ Dale C. Allison Jr ER -