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Anselm Academic
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Presents an overview of the first-century world of Jesus, the historical Jesus, and canonical as well as other early Christian gospels to gain insight into Jesus' impact on religion, history, and culture. The book also explores issues of authorship, historicity, culture, and theology in the New Testament, specifically the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, as well as the extracanonical gospels.--
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English
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[This book] explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945.... [The author explores] historical and archeological sources to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of Christianity as we know it.... [She] compares such sources as Thomas' gospel ... with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some...
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