The Quest for the Real Jesus Biblical Interpretation Series Editors in Chief Paul Anderson Yvonne Sherwood Editorial Advisory Board Akma Adam – Roland Boer – Musa Dube Jennifer L. Koosed – Vernon Robbins Annette Schellenberg – Carolyn J. Sharp Johanna Stiebert – Duane Watson Ruben Zimmermann VOLUME 120 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bins The Quest for the Real Jesus Radboud Prestige Lectures by Prof. Dr. Michael Wolter Edited by Jan van der Watt LEIDEn • BOSTOn The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bins 2013 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSn 0928-0731 ISBn 978-90-04-23578-6 (hardback) ISBn 978-90-04-25480-0 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill nV, Leiden, The netherlands. 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COnTEnTS List of Contributors ........................................................................................ vii Abbreviations ................................................................................................... ix Preface ................................................................................................................ xi Jan van der Watt Which Jesus is the Real Jesus? .................................................................... 1 Michael Wolter From Mark’s Son of God to Jesus of nazareth—un cul-de-sac? ....... 19 Cilliers Breytenbach The Remembered Jesus ................................................................................. 57 James D.G. Dunn Contours of the Historical Jesus ................................................................. 67 R. Alan Culpepper Jesus as Savior and Protector—Before Easter and After .................... 87 Craig A. Evans A new Starting Point in Historical Jesus Research: The Easter Event ........................................................................................ 99 Michael R. Licona Theological Hermeneutics and the Historical Jesus: A Critical Evaluation of Gadamerian Approaches and a new Methodological Proposal ................................................... 129 Christopher M. Hays Historical Jesus Research as new Testament Theology ...................... 159 Robert Morgan In Which Sense has the Conviction that Jesus was Resurrected the “Certainty of Fact”? ............................................................................ 185 Notger Slenczka vi contents Im Glauben zum ‚wirklichen‘ Jesus? Überlegungen zu Michael Wolters Umgang mit der historischen Jesusfrage ........... 205 Martin Laube Academic Curriculum Vitae ........................................................................ 223 Michael Wolter List of Publications ......................................................................................... 225 Prof. Dr. Michael Walter Index of Authors ............................................................................................. 233 LIST OF COnTRIBUTORS Cilliers Breytenbach is Professor of Literature, History and Religion of Early Christianity at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany and also Extraordinary Professor of new Testament and Classics at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. R. Alan Culpepper is Dean of McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, Atlanta, GA, USA. James D.G. Dunn is Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University, United Kingdom. Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of new Testament at Divinity College, Acadia University, in nova Scotia, Canada. Christopher M. Hays is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow of Keble College and the Faculty of Theology and Religion at University of Oxford, United Kingdom and also a Research Associate in the Department of new Testament at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Martin Laube is Professor of Systematic Theology and Reformed Theology at Georg-August-University Gottingen, Germany. Michael R. Licona is Associate Professor in Theology at Houston Baptist University, TX, USA as well as guest researcher at north-West University, South Africa. Robert Morgan is Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Notger Slenczka is Professor for Systematic Theology/Dogmatics, Faculty of Theology, at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. Jan G. van der Watt is Professor of Source Texts of Christianity at Radboud University nijmegen, nijmegen, netherlands as well as Extraordinary Professor, Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. viii list of contributors Michael Wolter is Professor of new Testament, Faculty of Protestant Theology, at University of Bonn, Germany as well as Honorary Professor, Faculty of Theology, at University of Pretoria, South Africa. ABBREVIATIOnS AB The Anchor Bible ABD D.n. Freedman et al., eds., The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.; new York: Doubleday, 1992) ABRL The Anchor Bible Reference Library AJT Asia Journal of Theology ATAnT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und neuen Testaments BAR Biblical Archaeology Review BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium BEvT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie Bib. Biblica BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly ExpTim The Expository Times FRLAnT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und neuen Testaments HeyJ The Heythrop Journal HTR Harvard Theological Review HTKnT Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum neuen Testament JPOS Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society JR Journal of Religion JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament JSnTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplements JTC Journal for Theology and the Church JTS Journal of Theological Studies KuD Kerygma und Dogma LnTS Library of new Testament Studies Neot. Neotestamentica nIGTC The new International Greek Testament Commentary novTSup Novum Testamentum. Supplements nRSV new Revised Standard Version nTD Das neue Testament deutsch nTL new Testament Library nTOA novum testamentum et orbis antiquus NTS New Testament Studies