Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History

What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, internationally renowned Jesus scholar Dale Allison Jr. addresses such perennially fascinating questions about Jesus.

Representing the fruit of several decades of research, this major work questions standard approaches to Jesus studies and rethinks our knowledge of the historical Jesus in light of recent progress in the scientific study of memory. Allison's groundbreaking alternative strategy calls for applying what we know about the function of human memory to our reading of the Gospels in order to "construct Jesus" more soundly.

• Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament (New Testament Library)
• The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
• Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity (Christianity in the Making, Volume 3)
• Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet
• Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
• The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus