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The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith (Facets)
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The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith (Facets) Paperback - 1995

by Sloyan, Gerard S

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  • Title The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith (Facets)
  • Author Sloyan, Gerard S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fortress Press, Minneapolis MN
  • Date 1995-07-21
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0800628861-3-28159660
  • ISBN 9780800628864 / 0800628861
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6 x 0.54 in (23.06 x 15.24 x 1.37 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Jesus Christ - Crucifixion, Jesus Christ - Passion - Role of Jews
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95002480
  • Dewey Decimal Code 232.963

From the rear cover

What was crucifixion? Why was Jesus of Nazareth executed and what really happened? Gerard Sloyan begins with history and traces the development of the New Testament accounts of Jesus' death. He shows how Jesus' death came to be seen as sacrificial and how the evolving understandings of Jesus' death affected those who suffered most from it - the Jews. He then traces the emergence and development - in theology, liturgy, literature, art - of the conviction that Jesus' death was redemptive, as seen both in soteriological theory from Tertullian to Anselm, in the Reformation and modern eras, and in more popular religious responses to the crucifixion. Especially fascinating is the story of the emergence of a distinct "Passion piety" that still characterizes the West. In all this Sloyan detects the separation of the cross from Jesus' life and resurrection, allowing the mythicizing of an event too large for mere words to handle: the mystery of the cross.