The Life of a Galilean Shaman
Author | : Pieter F Craffert |
Publisher | : James Clarke & Company |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780227903254 |
ISBN-13 | : 0227903250 |
Rating | : 4/5 (250 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Life of a Galilean Shaman written by Pieter F Craffert and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of historical Jesus research is to identify the authentic material from which the historical figure as a social type underneath the overlay is constructed. Pieter Craffert's anthropological historiography offers an alternative framework for dealing with Jesus of Nazareth as a social personage fully embedded in a first-century Mediterranean worldview and the Gospels as cultural artefacts related to this figure. This cross-cultural model represents a religious pattern that refers to a family of features for describing those religious entrepreneurs who, based on regular Altered State of Consciousness experiences, perform a specific set of social functions in their communities.