The Life of a Galilean Shaman: Jesus of Nazareth in Anthropological-Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780227173206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 470 str.

Craffert, Pieter F.

Opis

The aim of historical Jesus research is to identify the authentic material from which the historical figure as a social type underneath the overlay is constructed. Pieter Craffert's anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a first-century Mediterranean world view and the Gospels as cultural artifacts related to this figure. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their communities.