The Da Vinci Code. Misquoting Jesus. The Jesus Papers. The Gospel
of Judas. New portraits of Jesus continue to stir up interest and
debate. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the
traditional view of Jesus, and the more attention it receives in
the popular media. Critical study of the Gospels has often shed
light on the Jesus of history - but has also distorted the Gospels
and rendered Jesus unrecognizable. Why are some scholars so prone
to fabricate a new Jesus? What methods and assumptions predispose
them to distort the record? Why is the public so eager to accept
such claims without question? Is there a more sober approach to
finding the real Jesus? Craig Evans offers insights into the
methods and biases of modern interpreters, whether scholars
associated with the Jesus Seminar or popularizers like Michael
Baigent and Dan Brown. He examines how we got today's New Testament
text, how ancient historians did their work, what second-century
Gnosticism was all about, and the way first-century Jewish and
Greek culture informs scholarly study of the Gospels. Readers will
come away with a new appreciation of the value and limits of
contemporary biblical research.
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