Jesus before the Gospels : how the earliest Christians remembered, changed, and invented their stories of the Savior /
Many believe that the Gospel stories of Jesus are based on eyewitness testimony and are therefore historically reliable. Now, for the first time, a scholar of the New Testament, New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman (Misquoting Jesus; and Jesus, Interrupted), surveys research from the fie...
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New York, NY :
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Oral traditions and oral inventions
- The history of invention
- Eyewitness testimonies and our surviving gospels
- Distorted memories and the death of Jesus
- Distorted memories and the life of Jesus
- Collective memory : our earliest Gospel of Mark
- The kaleidoscopic memories of Jesus : John, Thomas, and a range of others
- A paean to memory.