Jesus of Nazareth: Jew from Galilee, Savior of the World. By Jens Schröter. Translated by Wayne Coppins.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jens Schröter is Professor of New Testament and Ancient Christian Apocrypha at Humboldt University of Berlin. He is a prolific author and editor in the field of early Christianity. The present book is a translation of Schröter’s 2012 similarly titled German book, and it offers a detailed discussion bringing together two fields: research into the historical Jesus and the development of early and later traditions about Jesus. This deliberate choice is signalled in the title, leading to an initial reservation on the part of the reviewer. To say that Jesus was a ‘Jew from Nazareth’ is a statement fitting within the arena of Historical Jesus research. However, the claim that Jesus was ‘Savior of the World’ is a christological one, a field separate from Historical Jesus research. One does not always find such a combination in a single work. Essentially, Schröter proposes a particular and nuanced reconstruction of the historical Jesus, and then offers assessments of how closely various traditions about Jesus fit that reconstruction.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".