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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehrman, Bart D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
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.