CenSAMM
  • About
  • Blog
  • News & Events
  • Conferences
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Blog

The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus

Category: Conference

Tagged: Historical Jesus

June 14, 2022


[For updates on the conference, click here]


The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus is a conference and larger project run by James Crossley and Chris Keith. The conference will be both virtual (11 July) and hybrid (15–16 July), with the in-person event happening at the Higgins Art Gallery & Museum/Panacea Museum, Bedford.

The organisers argue that the quest for the historical Jesus has stagnated in the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, the Next Quest project accepts two recent developments in the field. It accepts that the criteria of authenticity and other attempts to get "behind" the Gospel texts have been largely unsuccessful. It accepts that celebrated debates about Jesus's Jewishness have largely updated older anti-Jewish tendencies in historical Jesus scholarship. Building on these developments, the Next Quest is a statement about where historical Jesus studies can go from here, and essentially an answer to the question, "What's next?"

For participants, the overarching aim of this project is that the Next Quest for the historical Jesus will be characterized by innovative approaches to established topics and innovative approaches to topics ignored in previous quests, or at least by their most prominent representatives. This is not, then, a claim to unparalleled newness. Indeed, the organisers and participants stress that the Next Quest will bring to the fore older (and recent) scholarship that was marginalised and overlooked in previous quests for the historical Jesus.

The Next Quest for the historical Jesus will move beyond searching for an uninterpreted reality “behind” the texts and hypothesize the historical Jesus by means of the cultural and historical processes by which particular images of Jesus were produced and transmitted. With this in mind, participants will look at a number of areas which have potential to revitalise mainstream historical Jesus studies, including (among many others): the social history of scholarship, reception histories, “religion” as a human phenomenon, networks, fame and aura, ancient media, scribalism and memory, the world of slavery, class conflict in pre-modern societies, materialist conceptions of history, violence and trauma, the body, omissions and silences, and how early ideas about Jesus interacted with ancient constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. And, in line with CenSAMM’s aims, the project will look at the cross-cultural phenomenon of millenarianism and think about how millenarianism has functioned in pre-modern agrarian societies.

The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus will foundationally be a curious quest, a broader quest, a wide-open quest, and one that explicitly links Jesus studies to innovative approaches to Christian origins and the Humanities generally—and brings it up-to-date as a subfield within them both.

Conference participants include: Giovanni Bazzana, James Crossley, Tucker Ferda, Paula Fredriksen, Deane Galbraith, Mark Goodacre, Meghan Henning, Nathan Johnson, Brandon Massey, Chris Keith, John Kloppenborg, Halvor Moxnes, Robert Myles, Gideon Wongi Park, Janelle Peters, Taylor Petrey, Adele Reinhartz, Rafael Rodriguez, Sarah Rollens, Nathan Shedd, Mitzi Smith, Joan Taylor, Matthew Thiessen, Robyn Walsh, Matthew Whitlock, Sean Winter, Stephen Young

ZOOM REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE

  • Part I (virtual only): 11 July, 12noon–5.30pm (UK time), https://tinyurl.com/szruyth9
  • Part II (hybrid): 15–16 July, 10am–5pm (UK time), https://tinyurl.com/5x2jj75c

Upcoming events both livestreamed on the Enoch Seminar’s Facebook page.

The conference is sponsored by CenSAMM, the Enoch Seminar, and Eerdmans Publishing.


  • Share Share
  • Print Print

Categories

  • Reviews (9)
  • Discussion (39)
  • Artist in Residence (1)
  • Podcast (23)
  • Conference (31)
  • News (11)
  • Video (8)
  • CDAMM (3)
  • Book (1)
  • Journals (1)

Tags

1381 Uprising, A. L. Morton, Adam and Eve, All things in common, Andrew Perrin, anthropocene, Antichrist, Antisemitism, apocalypse, Apocalyptic language, apocalypticism, Ariel Hessayon, Armageddon, artificial intelligence, Bar, Barack Obama, BASR, Beth Singler, Bible, Bill McGuire, Black Hebrew Israelites, Black Sabbath, Blake, Blake, William, Bob Crow Brigade, Book of Daniel, Brahma Kumaris, Branch Davidians, Britta Gullin, Caligula, capitalism, Cargo Cults, CDAMM, children, Children of God, Christ, Christian, Christian origins, Christian Zionism, Christians United for Israel, Christina Petterson, Christopher Rowland, climate change, climate changs, Conspiracy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crossley, James, Damian Cyrocki, Damien Cyrocki, David G. Robertson, Demonology, Denver International Airport, Dictionary, Diggers, DK International, Donald Trump, Doukhobors, Dune,, Dune:, early modern history, Early C, Ecoovie, ecophobia, Encyclopedia, End times, English politics, English Revolution, envi, environmentalism, Erin Roberts, extinction, Family International, Felicja Kozłowska, Four Kingdoms, George W. Bush, Gerrard Winstanley, Gordon Brown, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, Gospels, Herb Berg, Hibbert Trust, Historical Jesus, Home Office, Immigration, indigenous, indiginous, Jack Holloway, James Crossley, Jan Maria Kowalski, jason king, JBSAR, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesus, JFK, John Bale, John Ball, John Ball,, John F. Kennedy Jr

Archive

  • May 2025 (1)
  • March 2025 (1)
  • January 2025 (2)
  • October 2024 (1)
  • June 2024 (1)
  • May 2024 (1)
  • March 2024 (1)
  • February 2024 (1)
  • January 2024 (1)
  • November 2023 (2)
  • October 2023 (1)
  • June 2023 (1)
  • May 2023 (4)
  • March 2023 (2)
  • February 2023 (1)
  • January 2023 (2)
  • December 2022 (1)
  • November 2022 (1)
  • October 2022 (1)
  • September 2022 (1)
  • June 2022 (2)
  • May 2022 (2)
  • April 2022 (2)
  • March 2022 (4)
  • February 2022 (4)
  • January 2022 (2)
  • December 2021 (3)
  • November 2021 (1)
  • October 2021 (1)
  • August 2021 (1)
  • July 2021 (2)
  • June 2021 (1)
  • May 2021 (1)
  • April 2021 (3)
  • March 2021 (2)
  • February 2021 (3)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • December 2020 (3)
  • October 2020 (1)
  • September 2020 (3)
  • August 2020 (1)
  • July 2020 (2)
  • June 2020 (1)
  • May 2020 (1)
  • April 2020 (3)
  • March 2020 (4)
  • February 2020 (1)
  • January 2020 (2)
  • December 2019 (2)
  • November 2019 (1)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • September 2019 (2)
  • August 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)
  • June 2019 (1)
  • May 2019 (1)
  • April 2019 (1)
  • March 2019 (2)
  • February 2019 (1)
  • January 2019 (1)
  • December 2018 (1)
CenSAMM

© CenSAMM
All rights reserved.

  • Sitemap
  • Terms of Use
  • Cookies & Privacy Policy
  • Web Design by Chameleon
Contact Details

CenSAMM
Faculty of Divinity
University of Cambridge
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9BS

Tel:

Explore CenSAMM
  • Conferences
  • Events
  • About
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • The Panacea Charitable Trust
  • The Panacea Museum
  • Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
Newsletter Signup

Stay up to date with CenSAMM News and Information

  • Homepage
  • About
    • People
      • Prof. James Crossley
    • The Panacea Museum
    • The Panacea Charitable Trust
    • MF Norwegian School of Theology
    • FAQs
  • Blog
  • News & Events
  • Conferences
    • Anglo-Israelism and the British Imperial Imagination
    • Apocalyptic Nostalgia? Cold War Imagery in Popular Culture
    • The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus
    • The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements Conference 2022
    • The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements Conference 2021
    • Apocalypse and Utopia, 1914-1945
    • Video Games and Religion: Apocalypse and Utopia
    • Apocalypticism and Millenarian Movements in the Ancient World
    • Virtual Symposium: The Cold War and the End Times
    • The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements Conference 2020
    • The Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements Conference 2019
    • Natural Disasters and the Apocalypse (1500 to Present) Sept 13, 2018
    • Apocalypse in Art: The Creative Unveiling (June 28 and 29, 2018)
      • Apocalypse in Art: The Creative Unveiling (June 2018) media archive
    • AI and Apocalypse (April 5 and 6, 2018)
      • AI and Apocalypse conference (April 2018) media archive
    • Archive 2017
  • Resources
    • Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM)
    • Online resources (open-access videos and podcasts)
      • Definitions and General Themes
      • Biblical, early Christian, and early Jewish millenarian and apocalyptic movements
        • Apocalypticism and related ideas in the Bible, early Judaism and early Christianity
        • Jesus and the Gospels
        • Paul
        • Book of Revelation
        • Gnosticism
      • Medieval
      • Reformation, early modern and nineteenth century
      • Twentieth century and contemporary
        • Waco, David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
      • Culture
      • AI
      • Environmental issues
    • Profiles of Millenarian & Apocalyptic Movements
      • Brahma Kumaris
      • Branch Davidians
      • Christian Zionism
      • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      • Environmental Millenarianism
      • ISIS
      • Neturei Karta
      • Peoples Temple
      • Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
      • Rastafari
      • Sadrist Movement
      • Standing Rock Sioux
      • Strauss-Howe Generational Theory
      • Survivalists
      • Technological Millenarianism
    • CenSAMM Videos on Apocalypticism and Millenarianism
    • CenSAMM Interviews, Roundtables, and Seminars
    • Movies & Books
  • Contact

Share

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
Copy