Author : Bartosz Adamczewski
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9783631628980
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Book Synopsis Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels by : Bartosz Adamczewski
Download or read book Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels written by Bartosz Adamczewski and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the Gospels originated from a sequential hypertextual reworking of the contents of Paul's letters and, in the case of Matthew and John, of the Acts of the Apostles. Consequently, the new quest for the historical Jesus, which takes this discovery into serious consideration, results in a rather limited reconstruction of Jesus' life. However, since such a reconstruction includes, among others, Jesus' messiahship, behaving in a way which was later interpreted as pointing to him as the Son of God, instituting the Lord's Supper, being conscious of the religious significance of his imminent death, dying on the cross, and appearing as risen from the dead to Cephas and numerous other Jewish believers, it can be reconciled with the principles of the Christian faith.