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The Life of Jesus Critically Examined / (4th ed.) — David Friedrich Strauss

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined / (4th ed.)

David Friedrich Strauss

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 1449 pages

This nineteenth-century work of biblical criticism examines the Gospel accounts of Jesus, questioning their historical reliability and interpreting many narratives as myth. George Eliot translated this edition from the fourth German original. It is worth listening to for insight into the development of historical study of the Bible and modern theology.

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[Contents]
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[Contents]
THE LIFE OF JESUS [2]
[Contents]
FIRST EDITION, 1848. THIRD EDITION, 1898.
SECOND EDITION, 1892. FOURTH EDITION,
1902.
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[Contents]
Original Title Page.

THE
LIFE OF JESUS
CRITICALLY EXAMINED
BY
DR. DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS
Translated from the Fourth German Edition
By GEORGE ELIOT
FOURTH EDITION. IN ONE VOLUME.
London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LƗƽ.
1902
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Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT EDITION,
  2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION.
  3. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. THE LIFE OF JESUS. INTRODUCTION. DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES.
  6. FIRST PART. HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.
  7. CHAPTER I. ANNUNCIATION AND BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
  8. CHAPTER II. DAVIDICAL DESCENT OF JESUS, ACCORDING TO THE GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF MATTHEW AND LUKE.
  9. CHAPTER III. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CONCEPTION OF JESUS.—ITS SUPERNATURAL CHARACTER.—VISIT OF MARY TO ELIZABETH.
  10. CHAPTER IV. BIRTH AND EARLIEST EVENTS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.
  11. CHAPTER V. THE FIRST VISIT TO THE TEMPLE, AND THE EDUCATION OF JESUS.
  12. SECOND PART. HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS.
  13. CHAPTER I. RELATIONS BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST.
  14. CHAPTER II. BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS.
  15. CHAPTER III. LOCALITY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS.
  16. CHAPTER IV. JESUS AS THE MESSIAH.1
  17. CHAPTER V. THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS.
  18. CHAPTER VI. THE DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE THREE FIRST GOSPELS.1
  19. CHAPTER VII. DISCOURSES OF JESUS IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL.
  20. CHAPTER VIII. EVENTS IN THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS, EXCLUDING THE MIRACLES.
  21. CHAPTER IX. MIRACLES OF JESUS.
  22. CHAPTER X. THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS, AND HIS LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM.
  23. THIRD PART. HISTORY OF THE PASSION, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS.
  24. CHAPTER I. RELATION OF JESUS TO THE IDEA OF A SUFFERING AND DYING MESSIAH; HIS DISCOURSES ON HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION, AN
  25. CHAPTER II. MACHINATIONS OF THE ENEMIES OF JESUS; TREACHERY OF JUDAS; LAST SUPPER WITH HIS DISCIPLES.
  26. CHAPTER III. RETIREMENT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, ARREST, TRIAL, CONDEMNATION AND CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS.
  27. CHAPTER IV. DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS.
  28. CHAPTER V. THE ASCENSION.
  29. CONCLUDING DISSERTATION. THE DOGMATIC IMPORT OF THE LIFE OF JESUS.
  30. Colophon

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