Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Biography - New Testament

Did Jesus exist? In recent years there has been a massive upsurge in public discussion of the view that Jesus did not exist. This view first found a voice in the 19th century, when Christian views were no longer taken for granted. Some way into the 20th century, this school of thought was largely thought to have been utterly refuted by the results of respectable critical scholarship (from both secular and religious scholars).

Now, many unprofessional scholars and bloggers ('mythicists'), are gaining an increasingly large following for a view many think to be unsupportable. It is...

The author of Hebrews calls God 'Father' only twice in his sermon. This fact could account for scholarship's lack of attention to the familial dynamics that run throughout the letter. Peeler argues, however, that by having God articulate his identity as Father through speaking Israel's Scriptures at the very beginning and near the end of his sermon, the author sets a familial framework around his entire exhortation. The author enriches the picture of God's family by continually portraying Jesus as God's Son, the audience as God's many sons, the blessings God bestows as inheritance, and the...

The Apostle Paul was the greatest early missionary of the Christian gospel. He was also, by his own admission, an Israelite. How can both these realities coexist in one individual? This book argues that Paul viewed his mission to the Gentiles, in and of itself, as the primary expression of his Jewish identity. The concept of Israel s divine vocation is used to shed fresh light on a number of much-debated passages in Paul s letter to the Romans.

This is the complete story of Jesus taken directly out of the four gospels. It takes all the features of the classic Jesus narratives and harmonies of all time and combines them so readers may conveniently enjoy the casual reading, contextual study, and textual criticism of Jesus' life all from the same volume of material. All events in Jesus' life like Tatian's "Diatessaron" (160) Every word of the gospel like Augustine's "Harmony" (400) Organizes similar verses like Jefferson's "Life and Morals" (1820) Removes duplicate text like McGarvey's "Four-Fold" (1914) Compares side-by-side like...

This is the complete story of Jesus taken directly out of the four gospels. It takes all the features of the classic Jesus narratives and combines them so readers may enjoy the convenience of casual reading and contextual study of Jesus' life. All events in Jesus' life like Tatian's "Diatessaron" (160) Organizes similar verses like Jefferson's "Life and Morals" (1820) Removes duplicate text like McGarvey's "Four-Fold" (1914) Enumerates all passages using Aland's "Synopsis" (1985) Chronological like Watchtower's "Greatest Man" (1991) Indexes every verse like Cheney's "Greatest Life" (1994)...