I am someone deconstructing my old beliefs, and is generally interested in theology. There is a lot of informative content, and a very clear translation! It talks in depth about things most believers do not know about: The Secret Gospel of Mark, "Q", and gospels that did not make it into current New Testaments. The footnotes serve as a great guide to each story in each gospel. As someone who is a "lay person" relative to the...
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This book is for serious gospel study. The word "gospel" comes from a Greek term "euangelion" which means "good news." Within the New Testament the term refers to the message of Jesus, but eventually the term was applied to numerous formats for carrying the message. _The Complete Gospels_, as Robert Funk writes in the foreward, is "a bold step in gathering all the surviving gospels (from the early Christian era)... into one...
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This is an absolutely fascinating book.This is a very important compilation, both from a scholarly and a popular perspective. It has only been within the past generation that dialogue and interest in how the Bible came to be the Bible has grown beyond the narrow confines of academic analysts and theorists, and into the mainstream discussion of churches and independent readers. While most of the material in Robert Miller's...
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There are not just four gospels written about Jesus there are more than twenty written in the first three centuries. This book presents all those gospels. In a translation that is a collaboration between many of the best scholars in this feild these gospels are imbued with dynamic life and variety. No stone is left unturned, these scholars also explain the histories of each gospel and in an extremely readable way they...
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I have found the book very simple to read and understand. It does away with the conventional and difficult language of the conventional bible. For the first time that I was able to read the bible's gospels with such interest, passion and ease. I would even appreciate it if the old testament would be retranslated to accomodate the simple and exciting language adopted by "The Complete Gospels". The content itslef is obviously...
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