Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis

Tucker S. Ferda examines the theory of the Galilean crisis: the notion that the historical Jesus himself had grappled with the failure of his mission to Israel. While this theory has been neglected since the 19th century, due to research moving to consider the response of the early church to the rejection of the gospel, Ferda now provides fresh insight on Jesus' own potential crisis of faith.

Ferda begins by reconstructing the origin of the crisis theory, expanding upon histories of New Test...