Resurrecting Jesus

Jesus cannot be domesticated! In Resurrecting Jesus Kim asks the fundamental two-prong question, "e;What, then, can we learn from Jesus, and how can we build on the significance of his life and work as we do theology for our day in the here and now?"e; Kim abandons the traditional divide between criticism and theology and argues that a solid New Testament theology can be reconstructed from a critical study of the historical Jesus. Jesus is put back into the context of first-century Judaism in Palestine. Resurrecting Jesus reexamines Jesus' life, work, death, and resurrection, giving readers-a better, clearer understanding about the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings that refer to him;-an exploration into the significance of Jesus' life, teaching, and death, based not on doctrine but on his work of God in first-century Judaism and Palestine; and-a redefinition of New Testament theology that is a process of discerning and engaging the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings.