William E Arnal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at New York University. Michel Desjardins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University.
"...rich collection of thought-provoking and at times amusing
essays...." -- Matt Davis -- Books in Canada
"The strength of this volume is its diversity of voice, topic and
form which allows it to be at once representative and venturesome,
accessible and learned, Canadian and international, etc. I have
used many of the essays successfully with both graduate and
undergraduate students, either as representative samples of
Historical Jesus Research or as welcome challenges to the usual
fare. Warmly recommended." -- Ian H. Henderson, McGill University
-- ARC
"What distinguishes Whose Historical Jesus? is not only its
reliable and nuanced map of the avalanche area, but the remarkable
level of theoretical sophistication of its analysis -- not only
describing the various differences that exist, but trying to give
an account of those differences that show what is at stake for
humanistic scholarship. It is also a mark of distinction that the
essays are edited so that they engage in a genuine internal
conversation rather than talking past each other, a feature that is
partly due to labour of the editors, Arnal and Desjardins, and
partly to the collegial atmosphere cultivated in the Canadian
Society of Biblical Studies in its 1993 and 1994 meetings, where
most of these papers were first presented....Arnal's retrospective
(`Contemporary markings on the body of Christ') is practically
worth the cost of the book itself....Throughout there is an effort
to engage the best of Jesus scholarship with care and generosity
and without the rancour that sometimes infects this field." -- John
S. Kloppenborg -- Studies in Religion
"William E. Arnal and Michel Desjardins have put together a
valuable and substantive collection, providing essays from leading
Canadian scholars, along with those from the U.S., Ireland,
Scotland and Norway. It should be in every college, university and
seminary library; anyone doing Jesus research needs to engage these
fine contributions. I would also recommend it as a supplementary
reader for advanced undergraduates, seminary and graduate courses
on the ``Historical Jesus." -- K.C. Hanson, St. Olaf College --
Toronto Journal of Theology
"The volume deserves careful reading by all Jesus scholars." --
Scot McKnight -- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
"There is hardly an unworthy essay in the lot and I should expect
that Whose Historical Jesus? will soon win a place of distinction
in the bibliography of historical Jesus scholarship. It is to the
credit of the editors and contributors that the essays form a
genuine conversation that is courteous, learned, and unmarked by
the rancour that sometimes infects this field." -- James H. Olthuis
-- University of Toronto Quarterly
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