This is the time of the year when many professors are thinking about textbooks for next year, and I’ve come across one for Jesus of Nazareth classes. I’m wondering, in particular, if anyone out there has used this book in a class for undergraduates. It is called Recovering Jesus and it is by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld. This book has everything I’d like to have covered, but I wonder if the level is right.
The book is shaped by pedagogy rather than conclusions and an overall argument to present Neufeld’s view of Jesus; so he gives views; stuff on methods; leaves questions unanswered. I like that in a textbook.
He has very good bibliographies at the end of each chp.
Anyway, I’m wondering if anyone has used it and has comments.