Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort The Gospels - Couverture souple

Evans, Craig

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844741729 ISBN 13 : 9781844741724

Editeur : IVP, 2007

Synopsis

The Da Vinci Code. Misquoting Jesus. The Jesus Papers. The Gospel of Judas. New portraits of Jesus continue to stir up interest and debate. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, and the more attention it receives in the popular media. Critical study of the Gospels has often shed light on the Jesus of history - but has also distorted the Gospels and rendered Jesus unrecognizable. Why are some scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? What methods and assumptions predispose them to distort the record? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus? Craig Evans offers insights into the methods and biases of modern interpreters, whether scholars associated with the Jesus Seminar or popularizers like Michael Baigent and Dan Brown. He examines how we got today's New Testament text, how ancient historians did their work, what second-century Gnosticism was all about, and the way first-century Jewish and Greek culture informs scholarly study of the Gospels. Readers will come away with a new appreciation of the value and limits of contemporary biblical research.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New
Testament and director of the graduate program at Acadia Divinity College
in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He has written extensively on the historical
Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era, and has recently
served on the advisory board on the 'Gospel of Judas' for the National
Geographic Society. He has appeared frequently in television programmes as
an expert commentator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: IVP
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844741729
• ISBN 13: 9781844741724
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible