James H. Charlesworth

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James H. Charlesworth

James Hamilton Charlesworth (born May 30, 1940 ) is professor of New Testament language and literature at Princeton Theological Seminary . There he is, among others, a project to explore the Dead Sea Scrolls (Dead Sea Scrolls Project) ago. He is known for his research into apocryphal and pseudepigraphic writings on the Old and New Testaments and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He also researches Josephus , the historical Jesus and the Gospel of John .

Charlesworth is one of the founders and longstanding member of the "Enoch Seminar" and advisory board of the Enoch Journal. He has edited or authored over 60 books.
In 2001 he was one of the interviewees in the award-winning BBC documentary series Son of God ("The Son of God"), which was dedicated to the life of Jesus and wanted to show what is currently known about him.

Others

Charlesworth is an ordained minister in the Methodist Church .

Publications

As an author:

  • Jesus within Judaism: New Light from Exciting Archaeological Discoveries , Doubleday: New York 1988, ISBN 0-385-23610-7 .
  • The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament: Prolegomena for the Study of Christian Origins , Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1985.
  • The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library), Yale University Press: New Haven 2010, ISBN 0-300-14082-7 .

As editor:

  • The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha , 2 vols., Doubleday: New York 1983-85.
  • Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls , Doubleday: New York 1992.
  • The Messiah: Developments in Earliest Judaism and Christianity , Minneapolis 1992.
  • The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls , 3 vols., Baylor University Press: Waco (Texas) 2006.
  • Jesus and Archeology , Eerdmans: Grand Rapids 2006, ISBN 0-8028-4880-X .
  • Origins Matter (CBAP Lectures 2009), Catholic Biblical Association of the Philippines: Quezon City 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt Wells, "Is this the real face of Jesus Christ?", In: The Guardian (London, March 27, 2001). The three-part series can be found at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281485/
  2. ↑ https://www.ptsem.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=1917
personal data
SURNAME Charlesworth, James H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charlesworth, James Hamilton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1940