Deconstrucción de los relatos evangélicos de la pasión. Sobre el arraigo de la ficción en la Historia de las religiones

Fernando Bermejo

doi:10.5209/rev_ILUR.2015.v20.50404

Deconstructing the Gospel Passion Narratives. On the Fiction Embedded in the History of Religions

Fernando Bermejo Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ILUR.2015.v20.50404

Keywords: Gospels, Passion Accounts, Inconsistencies, Fiction, History of Religions.

Abstract

Very often the fundamental requirements of critical rigour and independence are still lacking in the historical reconstruction of the Jew Yeshua ben Yosef, which is in part due to the fact that the inconsistent nature of the Gospels is not seriously taken into account. The present article analyses the inconsistencies of the Passion accounts, unveils the presence of an underlying process of de-politicization, and accordingly points to the untenable character of several key statements on the Galilean preacher made by many contemporary historians.

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Bermejo F. (2015). Deconstructing the Gospel Passion Narratives. On the Fiction Embedded in the History of Religions. ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 20, 37-68. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ILUR.2015.v20.50404

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