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"In The Four Witnesses, Robin Griffith-Jones brings the stories of Jesus to life for the contemporary reader as he revives the original power and intent of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John as individual witnesses. He presents a lively discussion of how and why each of the four gospels was written, considering the substance and style of the testimony itself as well as the unique context of each story. Rather than entering into the current...

This book is about developing the gospel. The Synoptic Gospels neatly fills the gap between brief treatments of the synoptics by New Testament introductions and exhaustive commentaries. Keith Nickle relates the background and development of the Gospels in uncomplicated, readily understood language. This book is designed for colleges, introductory seminary classes, and adult Christian education. Nickle shows how early Christians interpreted the stories...

Who wrote the gospels? Would you believe a woman wrote one of them? This is one of the most straightforward and honest appraisals of what is arguably the most important collection of works in Western history. Bible scholar Randel Helms shows there is a lot more to the story than what we were all taught in school.--From publisher description.

Helms analyzes the most familiar and powerful stories about Jesus, and suggests that the Gospels are works of narrative art, contrived and creative interpretations, the supreme fictions of our culture.

A lifelong Christian evaluates the differences between her beliefs and those of fellow Christians, describing her efforts to study Jesus as a character of the Gospels, in an analysis of biblical stories through which the author developed a greater awareness of Jesus as a deity in human form.

"Spencer examines both the Synoptics and the Gospel of John as he tries to catch a wide-angle vision of Jesus' behavior in the gospels. Rather than focus on sayings or pronouncements as an authoritative code of conduct, Spencer studies Jesus' deeds or actions as keys to his identity and vocation. While not ignoring Jesus' teaching, this study is more interested in discovering how Jesus personally lived out and lived up to his own moral instruction....

"In The Original Jesus biblical historian Tom Wright focuses on key stages in the life of Jesus, and key elements of his teaching, revealing a vivid reconstruction of what Jesus himself was aiming to achieve, and how the movement he began can best be understood in relation to the turbulent politics and fervent aspirations of his day." "Tom Wright also looks at the way we interpret the different Gospel narratives about Jesus, showing how modern readers...

Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian...

On 24 December 1994 The Times of London reported the claim by the German scholar Carsten Thiede that the three papyrus fragments of Matthew's Gospel held in Oxford since 1901 date from the first century, a hundred years earlier than previously thought. Graham Stanton, one of Britain's most eminent New Testament scholars and a leading specialist on Matthew's Gospel, was among the first to call the new findings into question. Now his fascinating new...

Draws analogies between Jung's archetypal symbols of the mythic hero and the Hero as exemplified in the New Testament story of Jesus - The essence of human life patterns and the Hero myth as discussed by Jung offer strong parallels to the Gospel stories of Jesus and reveal the God-given pattern of existence that is embodied by Jesus Christ.