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

The Life of a Galilean Shaman: Jesus of Nazareth in Anthropological-Historical Perspective
ISBN-10
0227903250
ISBN-13
9780227903254
Category
Religion
Pages
470
Language
English
Published
2010-02-25
Publisher
ISD LLC
Author
Pieter F Craffert

Description

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 worldview and the Gospels as cultural artefacts 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.

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