Ancient Christian Gospels
Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Helmut Koester
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Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780334049616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this magisterial volume, which is destined to become the standard text for studying the tradition and history of the early Christian Gospel literature, the author treats more than a dozen Gospel writings from the first two centuries. These Gospels include more than the standard canonical Gospels, covering also such writings as the Gospel of Thomas, the Apocryphon ofJames, the Gospel of Mary and others.
Author: Helmut Koester
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780334024507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this magisterial volume, destined to become the standard text for studying the tradition and history of early Christian gospel literature, the author studies the earliest discernible elements of gospel material through the canonical Gospels to the harmonization attempts of the second century that culminated in Tatian's Diatessaron.
Author: Andrew Bernhard
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2007-11-27
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Other Early Christian Gospels collects all the recently-recovered Greek manuscripts containing parts of long-lost early Christian gospels into a single volume.
Author: Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2017-01-17
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1611646804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this reader-friendly guide, Markus Bockmuehl offers a sympathetic account of the ancient apocryphal Gospel writings, showing their place within the reception history and formation of what was to become the canonical fourfold Gospel. Bockmuehl begins by helping readers understand the early history behind these noncanonical Gospels before going on to examine dozens of specific apocryphal texts. He explores the complex oral and intertextual relationships between the noncanonical and canonical Gospels, maintaining that it is legitimate and instructive to read the apocryphal writings as an engagement with the person of Jesus that both presupposes and supplements the canonical narrative outline. Appropriate for pastors and nonspecialists, this work offers a fuller understanding of these writings and their significance for biblical interpretation in the church.
Author: John Dominic Crossan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2008-03-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1725221829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The four canonical gospels are long set in established sequence as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This book is about four other gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Gospel of Mark; the Gospel of Peter, and Egerton Papyrus 2. These four other gospels have generally been regarded as mere digests or collages of the canonical gospels, whereas in fact, as Professor Crossan persuasively shows, the four others hold within their mutilated fragments independent or earlier traditions than those tradition has canonized. Four Other Gospels proposes a spectrum of relations between the canonical gospels and these others. This spectrum ranges from the Gospel of Thomas, which is a parallel and independent tradition, to Egerton Papyrus 2, on which both John and Mark are dependent, to the Secret Gospel of Mark, on which Mark directly and John indirectly are dependent, and on to the Gospel of Peter, which contains an original Passion-Resurrection source used by all four of the canonical gospels, but which submitted to their eventual ascendancy by attempting a harmonization between it and them, and placed the new complex under the authority and authorship of Simon Peter. Four Other Gospels does not propose a new or alternative canon. The canon is a fact both of history and of theology. But the thesis of this book is that anyone who takes the four other gospels seriously and thoughtfully will never again be able to read the four canonical gospels in quite the same way. A new light has been shed.
Author: John S. Kloppenborg
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2008-10-03
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 161164058X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his significance--and one that differs markedly from that offered by its contemporary, the apostle Paul. Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it. Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
Author: Ronald E. Heine
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0801027772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the role played by the Old Testament in the formation of early Christian thinking.
Author: Christopher A. Frilingos
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 081224950X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What was it like in the household of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? The extracanonical Infancy Gospel of Thomas and the Protogospel of James offer some answers. In stories of household conflict, as well as in scenes of courage and love, ancient Christians learned about human ignorance, divine omniscience, and the worth of family life.
Author: Theodore of Mopsuestia
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-03-26
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0830829067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theodore of Mopsuestia serves as one of the most important exemplars of Antiochene exegesis of his generation.While charges of heterodoxy against Theodore may not be entirely justified, there remains an apparent dualism in his Christology that should be critically viewed in light of the later Chalcedonian formula. With this caution, there still remains much that is valuable for contemporary readers, whether preachers, students or lay people interested in the early church?s understanding of the Gospel of John. Here for the first time is a complete English translation of this valuable work, ably translated by Marco Conti and edited by Joel C. Elowsky.