Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism A New Quest for the Nineteenth-Century Historical Jesus

includes index and biblioraphy

Jesus and Modern Identities ................1 The Rise of Nationalism and the Historical Jesus ...........1 Beyond Schweitzer`s Account of the Quest for the Historical Jesus ...........4 1. Writing a Biography of Jesus in an Age of Nationalism ......17 A new form of Writing about Jesus ...............17 The Function of Biography .............25 Jesus as a National Hero ...................31 2. Holy land as Homeland : The Nineteenth- Century Landscape of Jesus ............39 Between Homeland and Holy Land ..............................44 3. Imagining a Nation : Schleiermacher`s Jesus as Teacher to the Nation ..........61 Schleiermacher and His biography of Jesus ..................62 The Great man and his People ..........69 Jesus as Teacher to the Nation ............79 4. Protestant Nation: D.F. Strauss and Jesus for the German People .............95 A modern nineteenth- Century writer ............96 Jesus of the Life of Jesus, Critically Examined ............98 5. Familiar and Foreign : Life of Jesus in the Orientalism of Renan ............121 6. The manly Nation : MOral Landscape and National Character in George Adam Smith`s the Historical Geography of the Holy Land ...........149 7. Jesus Beyond Nationalism : Imagining a Post-National World ...........179