For the story, I interviewed Professors Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Thomas Wayment at BYU, who have published a study guide on the book, which I recommend if you want to know about updates to the book. I did a story on it nearly two years ago now in connection with the 100-yaer anniversary of the book's publication. Parts of it are outdated, but in general, it remains a valuable resource, even though it is more than 100 years old now. The article in Sunstone by BYU professor Thorp is a good place to begin in your evaluation, but shouldn't stop there. Only later, after four years living and studying in the Holy Land in my early twenties, did the bigger picture begin to come into view, but I have never found anything in modern critical scholarship which would call the mission of Jesus Christ into question. What he said did not conflict at all with my impressions gained earlier when reading the Gospels intensely as a 15-year-old boy. I read it as a sunday school text when I was very young and naive, and still have warm memories of Talmage as a great and uplifting writer. Is anyone familiar with this topic? Which parts are considered most problematic now? The only two that I found were issues with the date of Christ's birthday and the interpretation of some verses in the OT that scholars don't interpret the same way anymore. I couldn't remember any specifics though and googling it wasn't too helpful. I think you are referring to this book by Holzapfel and WaymentĪ friend and I were discussing Jesus the Christ today and I mentioned that I had read that some of the scholarship was outdated and not accepted anymore. I have some memory of an LDS anthology of several contemporary scholars commenting on the book, but at the moment, I don't recall whether it has been published or not.Īt this point, I'd be more inclined to recommend this one: McConkie intended his Messiah books to be a successor, but they suffer from a tendency to use 20 words when one would do.
It's fine to read as a primer, to get started with an important text for LDS thought, an important text in the history of LDS thought, but a lot can and did happen in scholarship in a hundred years. I recall some references to Book of Mormon geography that are also way out of date, a bit cringe worthy from my perspective.
There is a good Sunstone article on the dependence on the Victorian Lives of Jesus. I've read it three or four times, most recently six or seven years ago. It was based on several "Victorian Lives of Jesus" and written, of course, long before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi texts, which provide a much more contemporary contextualization for early Christianity.
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