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Open Court
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Christianity, Criticism, interpretation, Bible

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Table of Contents

Introduction
What this book is about
The Jesus of the early Epistles is not the Jesus of the Gospels
Basic facts about the Gospels
Mark
Matthew and Luke
John
More on 'the Jews' in the Gospels
The question of miracles and the work of David Friedrich Strauss
The virgin birth
The birth at Bethlehem
Matthew's account
Luke's account
Luke's parallel between John the Baptist and Jesus
The nativity as fulfillment of prophecy
The genealogies
The origin and purpose of the Christian virgin birth traditions and their post-scriptural developments
The Resurrection
The Gospel accounts
The first three Gospels
The Fourth Gospel
Paul's account
To whom the risen Jesus appeared
Cephas
James
The twelve
The five hundred and more
The New Testament evidence as a whole and the synoptic burial narratives
Recent defenders of the traditional doctrine
Recent reinterpreters of the traditional doctrine
The Gospel of Mark : history or dogma?
William Wrede's epoch-making book
The role of the disciples
The secret of Jesus's status as Son of God
Mark and community tradition : K.L. Schmidt and form-criticism
The sayings GGspel, Q
The prelude to Jesus's public ministry
Jesus and John the Baptist
The temptation
Jesus as apocalyptic prophet
The transition from prophecy to apocalyptic thinking
From Reimarus to Schweitzer
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
Franz Overbeck, Johannes Weiss, and William Wrede
Albert Schweitzer
The Fourth Gospel and later
An appraisal of relevant passages
Recent attempts to cope with the texts
Sundry proposals
Meta-narratives
Coping with the Romans
Concluding thoughts
Epilogue: The Gospels and eyewitnesses.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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226/.06
Library of Congress
BS2555.52 .W45 2009, BS2555.52.W45 2009

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p. cm.

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OL23197356M
ISBN 13
9780812696561
LCCN
2009012192
OCLC/WorldCat
276339483
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6575690

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