Jesús Fernández-Pedrera Correa

The Trial of Jesus and Roman Provincial Criminal Procedure: Jurisdiction, Cognitio Extra Ordinem, and the Capital Competence of the Sanhedrin

The trial of Jesus is ordinarily discussed under two headings: whether the night session before theSanhedrin was lawful, and whether the council could lawfully execute. This article argues thatboth questions are posed in categories that do not fit the procedure in force, so that...

Narrative Identity and the Historical Subject: Ricoeur, Lévinas, and the Jesus of the Gospels

Ricoeur’s account of narrative identity has become the standard instrument for reading the Gospelsas texts that constitute a self and address a reader. This article argues that the instrument is soundand that its most common application is not, because that application turns on a...

The Trial of Jesus and Roman Provincial Criminal Procedure: Jurisdiction, Cognitio Extra Ordinem, and the Capital Competence of the Sanhedrin

The trial of Jesus is ordinarily discussed under two headings: whether the night session before theSanhedrin was lawful, and whether the council could lawfully execute. This article argues thatboth questions are posed in categories that do not fit the procedure in force, so that...

Narrative Identity and the Historical Subject: Ricoeur, Lévinas, and the Jesus of the Gospels

Ricoeur’s account of narrative identity has become the standard instrument for reading the Gospelsas texts that constitute a self and address a reader. This article argues that the instrument is soundand that its most common application is not, because that application turns on a...

The Testimonium Flavianum in Four Transmission Lines: Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Syriac

The passage on Jesus in Jewish Antiquities 18.63–64 survives in a Greek manuscript tradition thatis textually uniform and, for that reason, evidentially thin: every extant Greek witness descendsfrom a text already mediated by fourth-century Christian transmission. This article ar...

The Testimonium Flavianum in Four Transmission Lines: Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Syriac

The passage on Jesus in Jewish Antiquities 18.63–64 survives in a Greek manuscript tradition thatis textually uniform and, for that reason, evidentially thin: every extant Greek witness descendsfrom a text already mediated by fourth-century Christian transmission. This article ar...