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Book

Jesus before the gospels : how the earliest Christians remembered, changed, and invented their stories of the Savior

Call Number

  • 232.9 E33.2 (CEN)

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Publication Information

San Francisco : HarperOne, [2016]

Physical Description

326 pages ; 24 cm

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.

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