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The Fabricated Christ: Confronting What We Know About Jesus and the Gospels de Paul Laffan

The Fabricated Christ: Confronting What We Know About Jesus and the Gospels

Autor Paul Laffan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 iun 2019
The last 150 years of biblical scholarship have revolutionised the understanding of the four Gospels. The revolution remains, however, largely unknown to the general public. Paul Laffan's The Fabricated Christ argues for the wider dissemination of this knowledge and tasks those engaged in biblical criticism with greater honesty and frankness about the results of their research.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978702462
ISBN-10: 1978702469
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 160 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Fortress Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1.Introduction

2.Jesus' Relationship with John the Baptist

3.Jesus' Messiahship

4.Eschatology and Exorcism

5.Jesus' Prophecies of his Death and the Short Passion Narrative

6."I Will Destroy this Temple"

7.The Last Supper

8.Desertion, Agony, and Arrest

9.Trials and Crucifixion

10.The Resurrection

11.After Eschatology

Recenzii

Laffan's book on the Gospels is written in the spirit of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and Wiliam Wrede. Those who accept the skeptical view that the Gospels offer little historical material will not be disappointed. Laffan uses the "assured results" of form and source criticism to good effect. The spirit of the book can be summed up in Laffan's comment that "Far from being historical, Mark was now (after a university education) as brittle as burned toast and emphatically not history." The author uses "Miss Peters"-a Baptist teacher he had during his undergraduate years-as a straw man representing the uncritical and benighted representative of the ignorant reader. He takes Wrede's comment that "Mark does not make sense, not as history" to be the North Star of his entire approach to the biblical text, and he repeatedly beats the drum that the Gospels are the product of pure fabrication-hence the title of the book. Those looking for a text that holds that view need look no further. Well written and researched, Laffan's diatribe more than adequately fulfills the expectation of books of this genre.



Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

This book is a powerful exercise in the hermeneutics of suspicion. Laffan observes the scene in the canonical Gospels and finds there clues to what has taken place behind the scenes, in the world of the historical Jesus. The resulting reconstruction of the decisive events in Jesus' life is not unprecedented in biblical scholarship, but the case has seldom been made with such vigor and intellectual honesty.
Scrutinizing the texts of the Gospels from historical and literary perspectives, Laffan confronts the pious image of Jesus that he was taught in school, but also biblical scholarship based on theological presuppositions. The resulting picture is of a Jesus who is alien to modern sensibilities: The historical Jesus was a failed reformer, not the victorious Messiah of the Gospels. This is a book that will keep biblical scholarship honest!