The Gospel of Jesus: According to the Jesus Seminar - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598151584 ISBN 13: 9781598151589

Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst, 2014

Synopsis

The voice of Jesus has for centuries been obscured and his vision skewed even by well-intended gospel writers, who transmitted his words to serve their own concerns. The Gospel of Jesus frees Jesus' voice from the accretions of time and lets his challenging wisdom stand out as never before. This single composite gospel, created out of the sayings and reports that were deemed probably historical by the Jesus Seminar, is an essential resource for anyone seeking to detect the words of Jesus as they were heard by his earliest listeners.

This second edition includes a new preface and introduction, updated and reorganized translation and notes, and expanded appendices and indices, all in a redesigned, user-friendly format.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Composing a gospel like The Gospel of Jesus is nothing new. As the editor points out, creating a work like this is simply following the practices of the first evangelists: "The authors of the ancient gospels freely plundered the work of their predecessors in composing their own texts...New compositions were written out by hand and often presented as solely the product of the new authors. The composers of the New Testament gospels created their gospels in the same way."

From the Back Cover:

Praise for The Gospel of Jesus:

"Bold and meticulous scholarship, with astonishing results. The Jesus that emerges from this gospel is at once more human and more mysterious than the Jesus of popular imagination. The singularity of this Jesus compels us to interpret anew what he said and did, quite as it compelled his first century followers."-JAMES CARSE, author of The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple

"This book will excite, challenge, intrigue and threaten readers. It is a worthy contribution to the fascinating Jesus debate that has captured our generation." -BISHOP JOHN S. SPONG, author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die

About this edition

• Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1598151584
• ISBN 13: 9781598151589
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 129
• Editor: Funk Robert W., Dewey Arthur J.