The Life of Jesus of Nazareth

About Book

The aim of this book is to help thoughtful readers of the gospels to discern more clearly the features of him whom those writings inimitably portray. It is avowedly a study rather than a story, and as a companion to the reading of the gospels it seeks to answer some of the questions which are raised by a sympathetic consideration of those narratives. These answers are offered in an unargumentative way, even where the questions are still in debate among scholars. This method has been adopted because technical discussion would be of interest to but few of those whom the book hopes to serve. On some of the questions a non-committal attitude is taken in the belief that for the understanding of the life of Jesus it is of little importance which way the decision finally goes. Less attention has been given to questions of geography and archæology than to those which have a more vital biographical significance.

About Author

Rush Rhees (19 March 1905-22 May 1989) was a philosopher at Swansea University from 1940 to 1966

Rhees is principally known as a student, friend, and literary executor of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. With G. E. M. Anscombe, he edited Wittgensteins posthumous Philosophical Investigations (1953), a highly influential work. He was also responsible for bringing out other unpublished writings by Wittgenstein, including "Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics", "Philosophical Remarks", and "Philosophical Grammar".

e was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Benjamin Rush Rhees, a Baptist minister, author and president of the University of Rochester.

He studied philosophy at the University of Rochester, but was expelled in 1922 for insolent questions. In 1924 he left for Edinburgh where he graduated in 1928. He became a research fellow at Cambridge in 1932.

At Cambridge he impressed G. E. Moore who described him as his ablest student. Most importantly he met Wittgenstein, who became a close personal friend and continued to visit him after his move to Swansea. Rush Rhees’ main claim to fame is as a Wittgenstein exegete and for his influence on his friends, colleague Peter Winch and former student and his literary executor D. Z. Phillips. He gave a religious and ethical understanding of Wittgenstein’s work which is how Wittgenstein himself said he wanted to be understood. Together with G. H. von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe he was appointed by Wittgenstein as his literary executor.

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