An Inconsistent Truth? Reflections on Tucker Ferda’s

What is it about?

This essay review's Tucker Ferda’s Jesus, the Gospels, and the Galilean Crisis. Ferda's study outlines one of the dominant solutions to the theological problem of Jesus’ rejection (the so-called "Galilean crisis") and then charts the genealogy of how this paradigm emerged in the first place. Following this historicizing project, it then offers its own reading of Jesus’ mission, how it developed, and how it responded to rejection. Taken as a whole, this study offers an important, even-handed, meta-critical analysis of a common motif in historical Jesus scholarship.

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