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Mythologizing Jesus : from Jewish teacher to epic hero /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Dennis Ronald, 1946- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Mythological interpretations.
Jesus Christ > Historicity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Christian superhero
  • Born divine and human
  • Empowerment from above and enlisting sailors
  • Feeding thousands
  • Master of the winds
  • Tamer of monsters
  • Curing an old woman and bringing a girl back to life
  • Water walker
  • Land of the dead
  • Blind seer
  • Daring hero eats with the enemy
  • Hero in disguise transformed
  • Curing a boy with a demon
  • Entering a city in disguise
  • Clearing out a den of robbers
  • Prophet anointed by a woman
  • Following a water carrier
  • Preparing for death while friends sleep
  • Traitor in the midst
  • Cowardly promise breaker
  • Preferring a rascal to a hero
  • Heroic death and mourning women
  • Rescuing a corpse
  • Living dead
  • Disappearing into the sky
  • Appendix. The gospels of Matthew and John.