Fatherless in Galilee Jesus as Child of God

includes index and biblioraphy

My Journey ....................... Mapping the Mileposts 4 God-talk 6 Telling and Showing 7 How Much Can We Know about Him? From Doubt to Inquiry 22 Putting on a Different Thinking Cap A Profile of the Historical Jesus 39 An Itinerary of Scholars Through Shifting Sands Myth as Emptied Realities 48 Where To Begin¿At the River Jordan or at the Cradle in Bethlehem? Jesus` Baptism as Condensed History 51 Beyond the Lack of Textual Evidence 54 Beyond the Lack of Social-Historical Evidence 58 Beyond the Age Thirty Transition 72 The Joseph Trajectory ................................... Keep on Walking 99 A Chain of Seven Links 105 The First Link: The Saga in the First Testament 106 (The Wisdom Tradition) The Second Link: A Pair of Tribal Sticks 107 (The Prophetic Tradition) The Third Link: The Failure to Restore Defamation 108 (The Judean Tradition) The Missing Link: Fatherless in Galilee 108 (The Jesus Tradition) The Fifth Link: Overlays Filling the Empty Center 108 (The Gospel Tradition) The Sixth Link: For the Sake of Dogma 114 (The Orthodox Tradition) The Seventh Link: The Carpenter Is Deadly Alive 115 (The Patristic Tradition) What Was His Father`s Name? ...............................119 Status Envy and Social Identity 119 The Jerusalem Cult and Marriage Arrangements 127 Defending The Fatherless....................................135 Jesus¿Kingdom of God¿Children 135 A Tale of Two Kings 148 From Child of God to Children of God.........................155 The Metaphor "Son-of-God" 155 Ovid`s Perseus 162 Paul`s Son of God and Seneca`s Hercules 165 Children Calling God Abba 174 The Cradle of the Church ....................................184 A Movement of and for Others 187 From Jesus to the Church 189 From Faction to Sect to Church 190 The Continued Importance of Jesus ...........................195 Deconstructing Dogma 195 Jesus for Today 202