The Life of a Galilean Shaman: Jesus of Nazareth in Anthropological-Historical Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780227173206)

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.

Author: Pieter F. Craffert
ISBN-10: 0227173201
ISBN-13: 9780227173206
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2010
Pages: 470
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.85h x 5.98w x 1.25d