About the lecture

In this module, we offer some introductory remarks about Jesus’ identity, focusing in particular on (i) the controversy surrounding who Jesus was in his own time, as presented in the Gospels (ii) disputes throughout Christian history concerning the presence of humanity and divinity within Jesus (iii) the issue of the historical reliability of documents about Jesus, including post-Easter convictions of the Gospel writers (iv) comparing and contrasting historical and theological interpretations of these documents (v) variation between the accounts of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels and in John’s Gospel (vi) the significance of early Christian conceptions about Jesus being related to the divine.

About the lecturer

James Carleton Paget is a lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are research interests in Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity, ancient Jewish Christianity, inter-testamental Judaism and the history of ancient biblical interpretation. His publications include Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity (2010) and The Epistle of Barnabas: Outlook and Background (1994)