The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus

✍ Scribed by Robert W. Funk

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 580
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah?
Did he promise to return and usher in a new age?
How did Jesus envision the Kingdom of God?

The Five Gospels answers these questions in a bold, dynamic work that will startle traditional readers of the Bible and rekindle interest in it among secular skeptics. In 1985 the Jesus Seminar, comprising a distinguished group of biblical scholars, was founded by Robert W. Funk. They embarked on a new translation and assessment of the gospels, including the recently discovered Gospel of Thomas. In pursuit of the historical Jesus, they used their collective expertise to determine the authenticity of more than fifteen hundred sayings attributed to him. Their remarkable findings appear in this book.

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
THE SCHOLARS VERSION TRANSLATION PANEL
THE ScHoLARs VERsioN
ABBREVIATIONS
How TO UsE This BooK
INTRODUCTION
The Search for the Real Jesus: Darwin, Scopes, & All That
The Seven Pillars of Scholarly Wisdom
The Jesus of History & the Christ of Faith
Text Detectives & Manuscript Sleuths: The Gospels in Greek
A Map of Gospel Relationships
Rules of Written Evidence
From the Gospels to Jesus: The Rules of Oral Evidence
Beads & Boxes: The Jesus Seminar at Work
THE GosPEL oF MARK
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
THE GosPEL oF LuKE
THE GosPEL OF JoHN
THE GosPEL oF THoMAs

ROSTER OF THE FELLOWS OF THE JESUS SEMINAR
SuGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER SruoY
DICTIONARY OF TERMS & SOURCES
INDEX OF REo & PINK LETTER SAYINGS
FIGURES
Representation of a Greek Manuscript
Map of Palestine
1. Two Portraits of Jesus
2. The Synoptic Puzzle
3. The Mystery of the Double Tradition
4. The Two-Source Theory
5. The Four-Source Theory
6. Independent & Derivative Gospels
7. The Growth of the Jesus Tradition
8. How the Gospels Got Their Names
9. Stages in the Development of Early Christian Tradition
CAMEo EssAYs & TEXTS
Feasting & Fasting: The Domestication of the Tradition
Son of Adam
Egerton Gospel3:1-6
God's Imperial Rule: Present or Future?
Jesus of Jerusalem
Hard Saying Softened
Eleazar the Exorcist
I AM Sayings in the Gospel of John
The Resurrection of a Young Bride
The Greek Fragments of Thomas
The Discovery of the Gospel of Thomas
Thomas & Gnosticism

✦ Subjects

Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;Теология (Богословие);Библеистика (Библейское богословие);Библеистика Нового Завета;