Fernando Bermejo Rubio
Biographic Data
| ID | 2235816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Bermejo Rubio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando Bermejo |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubio |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIO F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5626-5428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Crux(es) of the Argument(s): A Response to My Five Respondents
The present article offers a rejoinder to the reviews of the book They Suffered under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance and the Crosses at Golgotha . The response replies individually to each of the essays by Christina Gousopoulos, Paul Middleton, Bruce Worthington, Warren Goldstein, and James Crossley. The important issues discussed include the relationship between History and Theology, ideological assumptions and positionality, the n…
Brand, Mattias (2022). Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis. Beyond Light and Darkness. Leiden & Boston: Brill
On the Self-Styled ‘Refutation’ of the ‘Seditious Jesus Hypothesis’: Or Jesse Nickel’s – and Others’ – Wishful Thinking
The hypothesis according to which Jesus and his group were somehow involved in anti-Roman resistance has been systematically opposed by some quarters through the centuries. One of the most recent examples is Jesse P. Nickel’s The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence , a book whose author boldly claims to have ‘refuted’ that hypothesis. The present article surveys this volume, concluding that it contains several misunderst…
Being or Becoming Divine: Nag Hammadi Claims in the Context of Ancient Strategies of (Self)Deification
The present paper tackles the issue of deification in some Nag Hammadi writings in the context of other ancient strategies of (self)deification. It pays attention simultaneously to Greek and to Jewish-Christian traditions – both to mythical and philosophical contexts – trying to clarify how ancient “Gnostic” texts should be read in dialogue with surrounding culture(s). Despite the many obvious differences of conceptual assumptions in the surveyed…
Calling the Parousia into Question: Doubters and Skeptics in Some Early Christian Texts
versión publicada
Arcari, Luca (2020). Vedere Dio. Le apocalissi giudaiche e protocristiane (IV sec. a.C.-II sec. d.C.). Roma: Carocci
rea cultural y lingstica que va de la Palestina de poca persa y grecorromana a algunos ambientes judos del mundo grecorromano ms all de los lmites de la tierra de israel. no se trata, sin embargo, de un manual que aborde de manera ordenada
Nacionalismo judío en la época del Segundo Templo? Sobre la legitimidad de una categoría
La presente contribución tiene su punto de partida en una situación historiográfica claramente conflictiva: mientras que numerosos historiadores rechazan la aplicabilidad de los términos «nación» y «nacionalismo» al judaísmo del Segundo Templo, muchos otros los emplean sin mayores problemas, hasta el punto de que se han dedicado enteras monografías al llamado «nacionalismo judío en la Antigüedad». En tales circunstancias, el propósito del present…
Hanc credo esse historiam veram de Jesu: Martin Seidel'sOrigo et fundamenta religionis christianae, an Overlooked Milestone in the Critical Study of Western Religion
versión publicada
Theses on the Nature of the Leben-Jesu-Forschung: A Proposal for a Paradigm Shift in Understanding the Quest
Criticisms addressed to the historiographical paradigm of the so-called ‘three quests’ by several scholars with different ideological backgrounds and who have worked independently have debunked it by proving its untenable character. The present paper makes a proposal for a new paradigm which allows us to understand the quest of the historical Jesus in a more comprehensive, lucid and explanatory way. This proposal has been articulated through a se…
The Process of Jesus’ Deification and Cognitive Dissonance Theory
The starting point of this article is the paradox that the first-century Jew, Jesus the Galilean, came to be considered divine by a sect belonging to a religion which is often deemed to be monotheistic, to the extent that many scholars refer to this phenomenon as “striking” and “puzzling.” Although a complete survey of the cultural and religious (Jewish, Greco-Roman) contexts in which the sect of the Nazoreans — the original core group from which…
Jesus and the Anti-Roman Resistance
Although the hypothesis according to which Jesus the Galilean was involved in anti-Roman, rebellious thinking and activity has been advanced since the eighteenth century, it is now held only by a minority of New Testament scholars. The aim of the present article is to carefully survey the arguments supporting that hypothesis, and at the same time putting them forward in a novel way. I contend that the cumulative effect of these arguments is compe…
Was the Hypothetical Vorlage of the Testimonium Flavianum a “Neutral” Text? Challenging the Common Wisdom on Antiquitates Judaicae 18.63-64
Even if one accepts the most widespread view about the so-called Testimonium Flavianum ( Ant . 18.63-64)—i.e., that the text is basically Josephus’s but with some Christian interpolations—a decision on the nature of the alleged original text is still pending. Although a number of scholars have asserted that it contained some unfavorable references to Jesus, the overwhelming majority assert nowadays that it was originally neutral. The aim of the p…
Why is John the Baptist Used as a Foil for Jesus? Leaps of Faith and Oblique Anti-Judaism in Contemporary Scholarship
Despite the existence of some differences between John the Baptist and Jesus the Galilean, there is no compelling evidence allowing us to infer that they were significantly contrasting characters, even less to postulate any significant opposition between them: the available sources are witnesses to the striking similarities in their messages, their radical personalities, their destinies, and their reception by their contemporaries. The widespread…
The Fiction of the 'Three Quests': An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Historiographical Paradigm
Understanding the history of Jesus research through the 'Three Quests' paradigm ('Old Quest', 'New Quest' and 'Third Quest') has become widespread—and even taken for granted—in the guild of New Testament scholars. In recent years, however, that taxonomy has raised several cogent criticisms. Nonetheless, there are apologists who keep this interpretive paradigm alive and well. This article aims at revisiting the Three Quests typology in order to as…
La escision imposible. Lectura del Gnosticismo Valentiniano
The Process of Jesus’ Deification and Cognitive Dissonance Theory
The starting point of this article is the paradox that the first-century Jew, Jesus the Galilean, came to be considered divine by a sect belonging to a religion which is often deemed to be monotheistic, to the extent that many scholars refer to this phenomenon as “striking” and “puzzling.” Although a complete survey of the cultural and religious (Jewish, Greco-Roman) contexts in which the sect of the Nazoreans — the original core group from which…
La escision imposible. Lectura del Gnosticismo Valentiniano
The Fiction of the 'Three Quests': An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Historiographical Paradigm
Understanding the history of Jesus research through the 'Three Quests' paradigm ('Old Quest', 'New Quest' and 'Third Quest') has become widespread—and even taken for granted—in the guild of New Testament scholars. In recent years, however, that taxonomy has raised several cogent criticisms. Nonetheless, there are apologists who keep this interpretive paradigm alive and well. This article aims at revisiting the Three Quests typology in order to as…
Why is John the Baptist Used as a Foil for Jesus? Leaps of Faith and Oblique Anti-Judaism in Contemporary Scholarship
Despite the existence of some differences between John the Baptist and Jesus the Galilean, there is no compelling evidence allowing us to infer that they were significantly contrasting characters, even less to postulate any significant opposition between them: the available sources are witnesses to the striking similarities in their messages, their radical personalities, their destinies, and their reception by their contemporaries. The widespread…
Jesus and the Anti-Roman Resistance
Although the hypothesis according to which Jesus the Galilean was involved in anti-Roman, rebellious thinking and activity has been advanced since the eighteenth century, it is now held only by a minority of New Testament scholars. The aim of the present article is to carefully survey the arguments supporting that hypothesis, and at the same time putting them forward in a novel way. I contend that the cumulative effect of these arguments is compe…
Was the Hypothetical Vorlage of the Testimonium Flavianum a “Neutral” Text? Challenging the Common Wisdom on Antiquitates Judaicae 18.63-64
Even if one accepts the most widespread view about the so-called Testimonium Flavianum ( Ant . 18.63-64)—i.e., that the text is basically Josephus’s but with some Christian interpolations—a decision on the nature of the alleged original text is still pending. Although a number of scholars have asserted that it contained some unfavorable references to Jesus, the overwhelming majority assert nowadays that it was originally neutral. The aim of the p…
The Process of Jesus’ Deification and Cognitive Dissonance Theory
The starting point of this article is the paradox that the first-century Jew, Jesus the Galilean, came to be considered divine by a sect belonging to a religion which is often deemed to be monotheistic, to the extent that many scholars refer to this phenomenon as “striking” and “puzzling.” Although a complete survey of the cultural and religious (Jewish, Greco-Roman) contexts in which the sect of the Nazoreans — the original core group from which…
Theses on the Nature of the Leben-Jesu-Forschung: A Proposal for a Paradigm Shift in Understanding the Quest
Criticisms addressed to the historiographical paradigm of the so-called ‘three quests’ by several scholars with different ideological backgrounds and who have worked independently have debunked it by proving its untenable character. The present paper makes a proposal for a new paradigm which allows us to understand the quest of the historical Jesus in a more comprehensive, lucid and explanatory way. This proposal has been articulated through a se…
Hanc credo esse historiam veram de Jesu: Martin Seidel'sOrigo et fundamenta religionis christianae, an Overlooked Milestone in the Critical Study of Western Religion
versión publicada
Arcari, Luca (2020). Vedere Dio. Le apocalissi giudaiche e protocristiane (IV sec. a.C.-II sec. d.C.). Roma: Carocci
rea cultural y lingstica que va de la Palestina de poca persa y grecorromana a algunos ambientes judos del mundo grecorromano ms all de los lmites de la tierra de israel. no se trata, sin embargo, de un manual que aborde de manera ordenada
Nacionalismo judío en la época del Segundo Templo? Sobre la legitimidad de una categoría
La presente contribución tiene su punto de partida en una situación historiográfica claramente conflictiva: mientras que numerosos historiadores rechazan la aplicabilidad de los términos «nación» y «nacionalismo» al judaísmo del Segundo Templo, muchos otros los emplean sin mayores problemas, hasta el punto de que se han dedicado enteras monografías al llamado «nacionalismo judío en la Antigüedad». En tales circunstancias, el propósito del present…
Calling the Parousia into Question: Doubters and Skeptics in Some Early Christian Texts
versión publicada
Being or Becoming Divine: Nag Hammadi Claims in the Context of Ancient Strategies of (Self)Deification
The present paper tackles the issue of deification in some Nag Hammadi writings in the context of other ancient strategies of (self)deification. It pays attention simultaneously to Greek and to Jewish-Christian traditions – both to mythical and philosophical contexts – trying to clarify how ancient “Gnostic” texts should be read in dialogue with surrounding culture(s). Despite the many obvious differences of conceptual assumptions in the surveyed…
Brand, Mattias (2022). Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis. Beyond Light and Darkness. Leiden & Boston: Brill
On the Self-Styled ‘Refutation’ of the ‘Seditious Jesus Hypothesis’: Or Jesse Nickel’s – and Others’ – Wishful Thinking
The hypothesis according to which Jesus and his group were somehow involved in anti-Roman resistance has been systematically opposed by some quarters through the centuries. One of the most recent examples is Jesse P. Nickel’s The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence , a book whose author boldly claims to have ‘refuted’ that hypothesis. The present article surveys this volume, concluding that it contains several misunderst…
The Crux(es) of the Argument(s): A Response to My Five Respondents
The present article offers a rejoinder to the reviews of the book They Suffered under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance and the Crosses at Golgotha . The response replies individually to each of the essays by Christina Gousopoulos, Paul Middleton, Bruce Worthington, Warren Goldstein, and James Crossley. The important issues discussed include the relationship between History and Theology, ideological assumptions and positionality, the n…
Philosophy (14 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Biblical studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)