A Short History of the New Testament

by Halvor Moxnes

Book Overview

Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety - gospels, letters and visions - this firstcentury collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him, proclaimed the imminent end of the world, but was made captive by the authorities of Rome only to suffer a shameful criminal's death on a cross. When his followers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780766084
• ISBN13: 9781780766089
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"