''..It is possibel to have real history only in the unconsciously artfil devices of memory and speech habitually employed by people celebrating rather than reconstructing the past.''
Exploring the fundamental experience of Jesus and his relationship to prior Jewish tradition, Léon-Dufour considers such vital domains of human action as money, sexuality, and human relationships-…
Everyone is looking for power. Political campaigns play to the power of fear and hope; advertising agencies rely on the power of appetite, both wielding power by the means of words.But churches hav…
The important of Galilee in the of Jesus and for all the Gospel writers has long been acknowledged. Yet curiously, the relevance of social, political and religious conditions in Galilee in shaping …
The historical reliability of the Gospels has been discussed from the Enlightenment onwards. At present, many scholars assume that the canonical Gospels as we have them are essentially fictions con…
In this magisterial volume, which is destined to become the standard test for studying the tradition and history of the early Christian Gospel literature, the author treats more than a dozen Gospel…
The author's stated purpose, however, "is not to put forth all the recent research of contemporary scholarship nor to explain the Fourth Gospel in its entirety...
This Tragic Gospel suggests that the "Gospel" of John intended to supplant the first three gospels and succeeded in gaining undue influence on the early churches. This study focuses on the tragic m…
Don Richardson, author of the bestselling Peace Child, demonstrates through compelling stories from many different cultures how the concept of a supreme God has existed for centuries, preparing peo…