As he shrewdly notes, "the real 'historical Jesus' cannot be grasped independently of faith in him," since what we know about Jesus comes to us in faith documents written by an interpretative community called the church. Lohfink was also exceedingly lucky to get such a good translator in his former student, Linda Maloney, who renders crisp and very readable prose.
I was led to buy, read, indeed try to absorb, Gerhard Lohfink's, Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was (Liturgical Press, 2012) when I heard that Daniel Harrington S.J., dean of American Jesuit New Testament scholars, said of it: "Lohfink's Jesus of Nazareth is the best Jesus book I know"-this from an author, himself, of an excellent book about Jesus: Jesus: A Historical Portrait.
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