How the Gospels Became History
Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (Synkrisis)
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Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient—and modern—people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways.
In this eye-opening work, M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became the four canonical gospels take on a historical cast that remains vitally important for many Christians today. Offering an in-depth comparison with other Greco-Roman stories that have been shaped to seem like history, Litwa shows how the evangelists responded to the pressures of Greco-Roman literary culture by using well-known historiographical tropes such as the mention of famous rulers and kings, geographical notices, the introduction of eyewitnesses, vivid presentation, alternative reports, and so on. In this way, the evangelists deliberately shaped myths about Jesus into historical discourse to maximize their believability for ancient audiences.
This is the most compelling and thorough comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology to appear in the last 50 years.
©2019 Yale University Press (P)2023 Matthew David LitwaLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity - truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries AD, but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.
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An absolute must for understanding Gnosticism.
- De Patriot RN - Doc en 05-12-21
De: Richard Smoley
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Mystery of the Magi
- The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men
- De: Dwight Longenecker
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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The Magi of nativity scenes are romanticized as well-dressed wisemen bringing gifts to Jesus. Traditional Chrstians tell of a miraculous star that guided exotic kings from Persia, India, and Africa. Academics dismiss both accounts as no more than a pious legend. Who is right? In The Mystery of the Magi, Dwight Longenecker shows that all sides are wrong and the Magi were diplomats from Petra, the capital of the Nabatean kingdom of Arabia.
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A Fascinating Deep Dive into the Story of the Magi
- De Pastor Ryan en 08-06-18
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The Great Shift
- Encountering God in Biblical Times
- De: James L. Kugel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine - wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year biblical era, encounters with God changed dramatically.
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Changing Conceptions of God and the Self
- De DJ en 10-27-22
De: James L. Kugel
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The Exodus
- De: Richard Elliott Friedman
- Narrado por: Richard Elliott Friedman
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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Biblical scholars, Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, literary scholars, anthropologists, and filmmakers are drawn to the mystery of the exodus. Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim this mass migration is just a story, not history. Others oppose this conclusion, defending the biblical account.
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It started well......
- De kboy2008 en 04-21-20
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Battling the Gods
- Atheism in the Ancient World
- De: Tim Whitmarsh
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories of the cosmos based on matter and notions of matter based on atoms.
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We have a history as long and as rich as any relig
- De Glencannnon en 08-13-19
De: Tim Whitmarsh
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After Jesus, Before Christianity
- A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
- De: Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, y otros
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.
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Excellent and informative
- De Claire Z. en 04-17-22
De: Erin Vearncombe, y otros
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The Evolution of God
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
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In this sweeping narrative, which takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy.
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Very heavy reading
- De Stephen en 08-07-09
De: Robert Wright
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God and Empire
- Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
- De: John Dominic Crossan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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In contrast to the oppressive Roman military occupation of the first century, Crossan examines the meaning of the non-violent Kingdom of God prophesized by Jesus and the equality advocated by Paul to the early Christian churches. Crossan contrasts these messages of peace with the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the Book of Revelation, which has been misrepresented by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify US military actions in the Middle East.
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Smart Book
- De Wesley Bishop en 07-01-22
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The Fourth Gospel
- Tales of a Jewish Mystic
- De: John Shelby Spong
- Narrado por: Al Kessel
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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John Shelby Spong, best-selling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly, and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus' life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the "Beloved Disciple."
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Very thought-provoking
- De Mark J Mickey en 03-18-23
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The Bible's Cutting Room Floor
- The Holy Scriptures Missing from Your Bible
- De: Joel M. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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In The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor, acclaimed author and translator Dr. Joel M. Hoffman gives us the stories and other texts that didn’t make it into the Bible even though they offer penetrating insight into the Bible and its teachings. The Book of Genesis tells us about Adam and Eve’s time in the Garden of Eden, but not their saga after they get kicked out or the lessons they have for us about good and evil.
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Good content, rather poor presentation by narrator
- De J_T en 12-28-16
De: Joel M. Hoffman
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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
- A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East
- De: John M. Allegro
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This audiobook challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion.
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Hated it,
- De Troy Sunde en 12-22-22
De: John M. Allegro
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Creating Christ
- How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity
- De: James S. Valliant, C. W. Fahy
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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This explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world's great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the first century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered.
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life is one big lie
- De Anonymous User en 12-25-19
De: James S. Valliant, y otros
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Primitive Mythology
- The Masks of God Series, Volume I
- De: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler - editor
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 19 h y 1 m
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The author of such acclaimed books as The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.
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Epic speculation into the origins of our mythic consciousness
- De BGZ en 01-10-19
De: Joseph Campbell, y otros
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
- The Conflict Between Word and Image
- De: Leonard Shlain
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 24 h y 5 m
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Who changed the sex of God? This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values.
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Can't Even Get Started
- De Marie en 02-08-19
De: Leonard Shlain
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall.
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Late Revelations introduces a revolutionary model for understanding the creation of the gospels in the New Testament and beyond. Rather than viewing the gospels as static and finished works published at one time, this book proposes that the initial gospels were "waves" of rolling traditions—stories, teachings, and sayings that evolved within early Christian groups. These traditions were fluid and dynamic, initially lacking the apostolic authorship attributed to them by later generations.
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Alexandria was the epicenter of Hellenic learning in the ancient Mediterranean world, yet little is known about how Christianity arrived and developed in the city during the late first and early second century CE. In this volume, M. David Litwa employs underused data from the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings to open up new vistas on the creative theologians who invented Christianities in Alexandria prior to Origen and the catechetical school of the third century.
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The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus. Historian and philosopher Richard Carrier reexamines the whole question and finds compelling reasons to suspect the more daring assumption is correct.
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Fantastic work by Dr. Litwa
This is an amazing scholarly review of the early works of Christianity. Dr. Litwa's work is groundbreaking and advances the field in a unique way. I highly recommend this for any fans of Ancient History!
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- Wintertao
- 08-12-23
Fun all 'round
Very entertaining and informative, I love the way Litwa makes observations and brings up points most do not see. I've been reading Philosophy, History, and books on Christianity since the early 70's at GSU in ATL and I always learn new things from his work.
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- Shahid
- 08-06-23
Excellent scholarly discussion
Excited to have Litwa's work in audiobook format. would love to have his other titles here as well.
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