The Many Lives of Jesus: Scholarship, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Imagination

This collection of essays aims to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship on Jesus and early Christianity, which illustrates the width and depth of the questions that critical reflections on the historical Jesus raised beyond the field of liberal theology. More precisely, it focuses on non-theological Jesus’ scholarship as practiced in various disciplines that engaged with the academic study of religion. On the other hand, this volume aims for a comprehensive, multi-perspectivist historicization of this scholarship, considering the full range of religious, cultural, racial, political and national dynamics that hosted the many controversies over the historical Jesus.