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The Historical Jesus of Nazareth 1876 by Max
Schlesinger

THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS BY ALBERT
SCHWEITZER (searchable PDF)

The Historical Jesus by Charles
Piepenbring

The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ by
Gerald Massey

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by
David Friedrich Strauss - 1892
 

The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined was a
sensation. One reviewer called it "the Iscariotism of our days" and
another "the most pestilential book ever vomited out of the jaws of
hell." When he was elected to a chair of theology in the University
of Zürich, the appointment provoked such a storm of
controversy that the authorities decided to pension him before he
began his duties.
What made his book so controversial was his analysis of the
miraculous elements in the gospels as being "mythical" in
character. The Leben Jesu closed a period in which scholars
wrestled with the miraculous nature of the New Testament in the
rational views of the Enlightenment. One group consisted of
"rationalists", who found logical, rational explanations for the
apparently miraculous occurrences; the other group, the
"supernaturalists", defended not only the historical accuracy of
the biblical accounts, but also the element of direct divine
intervention. Strauss dispels the actuality of the stories as
"happenings" and reads them solely on a mythic level. Moving from
miracle to miracle, he understood all as the product of the early
church's use of Jewish ideas about what the Messiah would be like,
in order to express the conviction that Jesus was indeed the
Messiah. With time the book created a new epoch in the textual and
historical treatment of the rise of Christianity.

The Resurrection In The New Testament An
Examination Of The Earliest References To The Rising Of Jesus And
Of Christians From The Dead (1911) Clayton Raymond Bowen

A critical essay on the Gospel of St. Luke
(1825) by Schleiermacher

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
(November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German
theologian and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to
reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional
Protestant orthodoxy.

The Jesus of History by T.R. Glover


The Jesus of History by Richard Hanson
1869


The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History
by D.M. Ross 1921

The Jesus of History and the Jesus of
Tradition Identified by George Solomon 1880

THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYS By John
Fiske 1876


The Historical Jesus and the Theological
Christ by JE Carpenter 1912

The Historical Jesus and the Christs of
Faith, article in the Contemporary Review 1896


The Christ of History and of Experience by
David Forrest 1901


The Historicity of Jesus - A Criticism of the
Contention that Jesus Never Existed by Shirley Jackson Case
1912


The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus by
Arthur Drews 1912


Fragments from Reimarus consisting of brief
critical remarks on the object of Jesus and His disciples as seen
in the New Testament 1879 


(Hermann Samuel Reimarus rejected miracles
and accusing Bible authors of fraud)


What is the truth about Jesus Christ? Problems of
Christology by Friedrich Loofs - 1913


Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century by John Cairns
1881


The Mythical Collapse of historical Christianity, article
in The Hibbert journal 1911

The Miracles of Christ Critically Examined, article in The
Princeton review 1871


The Historical Jesus, a survey of positions by JM Robertson
1916


The Jesus Problem - A Restatement of the Myth Theory by JM
Robertson 1917


Pagan Christs - Studies in Comparative Hierology by JM
Robertson 1911


Christianity and Mythology by JM Robertson 1910




Christology and Criticism, article in The Catholic World
1910


Messianic Philosophy - an Historical and Critical
Examination of the evidence for the existence, death, resurrection,
ascension, and divinity of Jesus Christ by Gideon Marsh
1908


Jesus, after Criticism, article in Homiletic review
1914


An Introduction to the life of Jesus; an Investigation of
the Historical Sources by AW Anthony 1899


Lessing's Theology and Times, article in Essays, Reviews,
and Addresses: Personal, political By James Martineau 1891


(Lessing argued against the belief in revelation and the
holding on to a literal interpretation of the Bible, and rejected
miracles)


Jesus in History and Legend - A Criticism from the Jewish
Point of View, article in New era illustrated magazine
1904


Christianity and the Chief forms of Assault, article in
Bibliotheca Sacra 1868


Mark's Gospel and the Synoptic Problem by AT Robertson,
article in The Constructive quarterly 1918


Christ and the Doctors, article in The Atlantic monthly
1911


The First Easter Dawn - An Inquiry into the Evidence for
the Resurrection of Jesus by Charles Gorham 1908


Life and ministry of Jesus according to the Historical and
Critical Method by Rudolf Otto 1908


German Theology, article in The contemporary review
1871


The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus
Christ by Kirsopp Lake 1907


The Jesus of the Evangelists, His Historical Character
vindicated by CA Row 1868


The Development of Theology in Germany since Kant by JF
Smith 1890


History of German Theology in the 19th Century by F
Lichtenberger 1890 


Jesus as Problem, Teacher, Personality and Force by F.
Bornemann 1910


The Christ of Primitive Christian Faith in Light of
Religio-Historical Criticism, article in The Monist 1904


The Life of Jesus Christ in its historical connexion and
historical development by August Neander 1853


Liberal Orthodoxy - A Historical Survey by Henry Clark
1914


Recent Christian progress by LB Paton 1909 (Articles
include: Higher Criticism of the Old Testament, New Testament
Textual Criticism, New Testament Exegesis, Higher Criticism of the
New Testament, History of the Life of Christ etc)


The Real Jesus, and, Recent Discussion on the Messiahship
of Jesus, articles in The Biblical world 1909


A Turning Point in the Synoptic Criticism, article in The
Harvard theological review 1908


Jesus and the Prophets - An Historical, Exegetical, and
Interpretative Discussion of the Use of Old Testament Prophecy by
Jesus and of His Attitude towards it BY Charles MacFarland
1905


The Conception of Authority in the Pauline Writings by
Alonzo Willard Fortune 1918


The Life of Christ by B Weiss Volume 1 1883


The Life of Christ by B Weiss Volume 2 1883


The Life of Christ by B Weiss Volume 3 1883


Toward the understanding of Jesus, and other historical
studies by V Simkhowitsch 1921


The Historical Man of Nazareth by Wilbur Bryant
1908


Christianity as the Pleroma, article in The Open Court
1909


The Historicity of Jesus - An Estimate of the Negative
Argument, article in The American Journal of Theology 1911


The Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews by Harris
Lachlan MacNeill 1914


Did Jesus Really Live?: A debate held in Orchestra Hall
1908


Jesus: Myth, Man or God by JM Peebles 1870




Did Jesus Really Live? A Reply to The Christ Myth by Arthur
Drews 1911


The Historical New Testament by James Moffatt 1901


Did Jesus Write his own Gospel? by WP MacVey 1912


The Jesus of the Gospels, article in The Religious Magazine
and Monthly Review 1872


What was Primitive Christianity, article in Frasers
Magazine 1875


Jesus: Mythical and Real - Article in The Dublin University
Magazine 1868




also


Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy by Henry Wace,
Thomas Henry Huxley, William Connor Magee, William Hurrell Mallock,
Humphry Ward 1889

"Seventy years later comes the Montpellier
physician, Jean Astruc. He first notices the key to the whole
enigma, the distinctive use made of the words 'Elohim' and
'Jahveh.' This leads him to the supposition of different strata in
the Pentateuch, and from him descend in direct line Kuenen and
Wellhausen. It is instructive, by the  way, to notice that all
the time Astruc will have nothing to say to arguments against the
Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch."


A History of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
by Marvin Richardson Vincent 1899


The Problem of the Old Testament Considered with Reference
to Recent Criticism by James Orr 1906


Old Testament Criticism and the Christian Church by John
Edgar McFadyen 1903
 

"In the first place, the very words Higher Criticism
are odious to many, because of what they seem to involve. To not a
few, Biblical criticism of any kind is practically synonymous with
impiety: what is man that he should dare to criticise the word of
God ? And " higher" suggests presumption. The term is no doubt
unfortunate, but fair minds should not allow the term to create an
initial prejudice against the process for which the term stands.
Criticism is not destruction. It is judgment."
   
 
History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament by
Eduard Reuss 1884 (Volume 2)

"Johann Salomo Semler was the first to undertake to
improve upon the common conceptions of the canon. He gave to his
criticism an essentially historical basis by commending and
practicing the study of the ancient ecclesiastical literature, thus
leading to a recognition of the gradual and fluctuating formation
of our present collection."


Reconstruction in Theology by Henry Churchill King 1901
 
"It is unfortunate that in the early stages of
higher criticism in America, for particular reasons, it came to be
associated, in the minds of many, with a rather bitter and arrogant
spirit; and it is even more unfortunate that, for many more, for
other special reasons, it was identified with the most extreme
results of an a priori anti-supernaturalistic
school."


The higher criticism and the Bible by William Binnington
Boyce 1881


A Reply to Harnack on the Essence of Christianity by
Hermann Cremer 1903


The Genesis of Genesis by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
1891


The Quarterly Review 1863

"Truly the higher criticism indulges in strange
assertions and very absurd difficulties! With regard to the second
passage, we may ask why a Redactor and an Elohist are to be called
into existence to explain the alternation of names in this passage
more than in Exod. iii. 4, Ps. xxxvi. 6-8, or Ps. Ixix. 13, 30-35,
&c. &c. It is not the higher criticism, but plain common
sense, which is needed to reject such arguments. But this is only
one proof out of many that the magic wand of modern exegesis
transforms that which would be esteemed worthless in the mouth of a
believer into 'high criticism' in that of a sceptical
commentator."

The New Appreciation of the Bible by Willard Chamberlain
Selleck 1906


The Old Testament and the New Scholarship by John Punnett
Peters 1902


The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: Eight Lectures by
Joseph Estlin Carpenter 1903


Dr. Friedrich Bleek's Lectures on the Apocalypse by
Friedrich Bleek, Samuel Davidson 1875


Evidences of Christianity by Lonsdale Ragg 1909

"THE BIBLE AND MODERN CRITICISM often attack
religion with the weapon of the 'Higher Criticism.' Scientific
criticism, they say, has utterly discredited the Bible ; and with
the Bible falls Christianity. Any one, however, who will take the
trouble to read a little book like Professor Kirkpatrick's Divine
Library of the 0ld Testament, may see something of the real
tendency and scope of the Higher Criticism. If anything is
discredited by sound criticism, it is the mistaken theory of verbal
inspiration, which allowed the Bible no kinship whatever with
non-biblical literature, and refused to recognise in it a human
element, as the medium through which God has spoken to
man."


Six lectures on the higher criticism upon the Old Testament
by William Binnington Boyce 1878


Founders of Old Testament Criticism: Biographical,
Descriptive, and Critical by Thomas Kelly Cheyne 1893
 
  
Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts: Being a History of the
Text by Frederic George Kenyon 1898


The Text of the New Testament by Kirsopp Lake 1908


The Christ of Today by George Angier Gordon 1896
 
"The higher criticism mutilates our Bible, if the
Bible does not witness to something greater than itself. This
modern method of investigation comes in the name of pure
scholarship, with the authority of historical science, and destroys
the letter. If one does not reach the Christ through both
Testaments, if one cannot invoke him for the determination of their
worth, one must have a horror of the higher
criticism."


Theology at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century: Essays on
the Present Status by John Vyrnwy Morgan 1900 (many dark
pages)


The Higher Criticism: An Outline of Modern Biblical Study
by Charles Wesley Rishell 1893


The Books of Chronicles in Relation to the Pentateuch and
the "higher criticism" by Arthur Charles Hervey 1892


Kanamori's Life-story Told by Himself: How the Higher
Criticism Wrecked a Japanese Christian - And How He Came Back by
Paul M. Kanamori - 1921


Thought and Religion: Or, The Mutual Contributions of
Philosophy and Theology by James William Lowber 1912


Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly?: Clearly Attested Facts
Showing that the Destructive "assured results of modern criticism"
are indefensible, by Robert Dick Wilson 1922


Results of Higher Criticism: As Applied to the Old
Testament by Winfield Scott Crowe 1894


The Life of Jesus in the Light of the Higher Criticism by
Alfred Wilhelm Martin 1913 (first 279 pages only)


The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address by
Charles Augustus Briggs 1891

"It is just here that the Higher Criticism has
proved such a terror in our times. Traditionalists are crying out
that it is destroying the Bible, because it is exposing their
fallacies and follies. It may be regarded as the certain result of
the science of the Higher Criticism that Moses did not write the
Pentateuch or Job; Ezra did not write the Chronicles, Ezra, or
Nehemiah; Jeremiah did not write the Kings or Lamentations; David
did not write the Psalter, but only a few of the Psalms; Solomon
did not write the Song of Songs or Ecclesiastes, and only a portion
of the Proverbs; Isaiah did not write half of the book that bears
his name."
   

The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch by Charles Augustus
Briggs 1893


The Crisis of the Churches by Leighton Parks 1922 (first
222 pages only)


The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
1881


The Pentateuch in the Light of To-day: Being a Simple
Introduction to the Pentateuch on the Lines of Higher Criticism by
Alfred Holborn 1902


The Failure of the "higher Criticism" of the Bible by Emil
Reich 1905
 
"The sad truth is that Higher Criticism is an act of
retrograde, decadent science; an act, a method long condemned and
laughed at in various other branches of historical and legal
study."


An Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament by
Samuel Rolles Driver 1914


The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich
Strauss - 1892


Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the
Article Israel from the Encyclopedia Brittanica by Julius
Wellhausen 1885

"Wellhausen was famous for his critical
investigations into Old Testament history and the composition of
the Hexateuch, the uncompromising scientific attitude he adopted in
testing its problems bringing him into antagonism with the older
school of biblical interpreters. He is perhaps most well-known for
his Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels of 1883 (first published
1878 as Geschichte Israels), in which he advanced a definitive
formulation of the Documentary hypothesis, arguing that the Torah
or Pentateuch had its origins in a redaction of four originally
independent texts dating from several centuries after the time of
Moses, their traditional author. Wellhausen's hypothesis remained
the dominant paradigm for Pentateuchal studies until the last
quarter of the 20th century, when it began to be challenged by
scholars who saw more and more hands at work in the Torah,
ascribing them to periods even later than Wellhausen had
proposed."