Fabricating Jesus

How Modern Scholars Distort The Gospels

By: Craig A. Evans

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Paperback | 19 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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The Da Vinci Code. Misquoting Jesus. The Jesus Papers. The Gospel of Judas.
New portraits of Jesus continue to stir up interest and debate. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, and the more attention it receives in the popular media. Critical study of the Gospels has often shed light on the Jesus of history - but has also distorted the Gospels and rendered Jesus unrecognizable.
Why are some scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? What methods and assumptions predispose them to distort the record? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus?
Craig Evans offers insights into the methods and biases of modern interpreters, whether scholars associated with the Jesus Seminar or popularizers like Michael Baigent and Dan Brown. He examines how we got today's New Testament text, how ancient historians did their work, what second-century Gnosticism was all about, and the way first-century Jewish and Greek culture informs scholarly study of the Gospels. Readers will come away with a new appreciation of the value and limits of contemporary biblical research.

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Misplaced faith and misguided suspicion : old and new school skeptics	p. 19
Cramped starting points and overly strict critical methods : the question of authenticity	p. 34
Questionable texts - Part I : the Gospel of Thomas	p. 52
Questionable texts - Part II : the Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, the Gospel of Mary and the secret Gospel of Mark	p. 78
Alien contexts : the case against Jesus as cynic	p. 100
Skeletal sayings : maxims without a context	p. 123
Diminished deeds : a fresh look at healings and miracles	p. 139
Dubious uses of Josephus : understanding late antiquity	p. 158
Anachronisms and exaggerated claims : Christianities lost and otherwise	p. 180
Hokum history and bogus findings : Jesus between the lines	p. 204
Will the real Jesus please stand up? : unfabricating his aims and claims	p. 222
Agrapha : free-floating sayings of Jesus	p. 236
What should we think about the Gospel of Judas?	p. 240
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