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Fabricating Jesus : how modern scholars distort the gospels / Craig A. Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2006.Description: 290 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0830833188 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780830833184
  • 9780830833559 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 232.9/08 22
LOC classification:
  • BT303.2 .E93 2006
Contents:
Introduction -- Misplaced faith and misguided suspicion : old and new school skeptics -- Cramped starting points and overly strict critical methods : the question of authenticity -- Questionable texts, Part I : the Gospel of Thomas -- Questionable texts, Part II : the Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, the Gospel of Mary and the secret Gospel of Mark -- Alien contexts : the case against Jesus as cynic -- Skeletal sayings : maxims without a context -- Diminished deeds : a fresh look at healings and miracles -- Dubious uses of Josephus : understanding late antiquity -- Anachronisms and exaggerated claims : Christianities lost and otherwise -- Hokum history and bogus findings : Jesus between the lines -- Will the real Jesus please stand up? unfabricating his aims and claims -- Appendix 1: Agrapha : free-floating sayings of Jesus -- Appendix 2: What should we think about the Gospel of Judas?
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Books Books Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section 232.908 Eva 2006 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12946

Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-273) and indexes.

Introduction -- Misplaced faith and misguided suspicion : old and new school skeptics -- Cramped starting points and overly strict critical methods : the question of authenticity -- Questionable texts, Part I : the Gospel of Thomas -- Questionable texts, Part II : the Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, the Gospel of Mary and the secret Gospel of Mark -- Alien contexts : the case against Jesus as cynic -- Skeletal sayings : maxims without a context -- Diminished deeds : a fresh look at healings and miracles -- Dubious uses of Josephus : understanding late antiquity -- Anachronisms and exaggerated claims : Christianities lost and otherwise -- Hokum history and bogus findings : Jesus between the lines -- Will the real Jesus please stand up? unfabricating his aims and claims -- Appendix 1: Agrapha : free-floating sayings of Jesus -- Appendix 2: What should we think about the Gospel of Judas?

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