Table of Contents

I. Into the Well of Historical Jesus Scholarship, II. Paul and Early Christianity: Historical and Exegetical Investigations, Part III The Rewritten Bible and the Life of Jesus

About the Author

Thomas L. Thompson is Professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen, whose list of works includes The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David (Basic Books, 2005). Thomas S. Verenna is an independent researcher and student at Rutgers University, whose book Of Men and Muses: Essays on History, Literature and Religion was published by Lulu Press in 2009. His most recent related paper on the subject is 'Did Jesus Exist? The Trouble with Certainty in Historical Jesus Scholarship', published in the online journal Bible and Interpretation in May 2012.

Reviews

'Is This Not the Carpenter? is an important example of what we need more of: serious scholarly examinations and debates on the historicity of Jesus and what methods to use in resolving it. It includes papers that for specialists are required reading on this topic.' Richard Carrier, author of Sense and Goodness without God, Proving History, and Not the Impossible Faith