Jesus and the Message of the New Testament

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Fortress Press - Religion - 126 pages
This volume brings together some of Jeremias's best-known works on historical Jesus research and core issues concerning Gospel tradition. It features foundational questions in historical Jesus research plus Aramaic backgrounds of the Gospels.
 

Contents

The Search for the Historical Jesus
1
The Crucial Significance of the Historical Jesus
6
The Good News of Jesus and the Proclamation of the Early Church
12
The Sermon on the Mount
18
The Origins of the Sermon on the Mount
24
The Sermon on the Mount as an Early Christian Catechism
27
The Individual Sayings of Jesus
30
Not Law but Gospel
35
The Meaning of the Lords Prayer
49
The Central Message of the New Testament
63
The Sacrificial Death of Jesus
75
Justification by Faith
85
The Revealing Word
96
Bibliography
111
Index of Authors
117
Index of Terms and Phrases
120

The Lords Prayer
39
The Earliest Text of the Lords Prayer
42

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