Documents for the Study of the Gospels - Softcover

David R Cartlidge; David L. Dungan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0529057263 ISBN 13: 9780529057266

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1980

Synopsis

This is a collection of newly translated texts showing the variety of the religious world at the time that Christianity emerged as a powerful new force. This book brings For the first time under a single cover documents from Jewish, Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Syrian, and little known early Christian sources. There are three main parts plus the introduction by the authros, "Savior Gods in the Mediterranean World. Part I, the Christian Savior contains the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Phillip, the Acts of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas among others. Part II, Greek, Jewish, Adn Roman parallesl Illustrating the Milieu of the Gospels" is an extensive collections of excerpts from other period literature. Part III, Greek and Jewish Gospels, contains abridged texts often cited as close parallels from non-Christian literature of the period: Life of Appolonius, Philo's Life of Moses and others. The books if intended for undergraduate and seminary study and is recommended for the adult reader as well.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This collection of freshly translated texts leads to a new appreciation of the richness and variety of the religious world within which Christianity emerged as a powerful new force.

About the Author

David R. Cartlidge is the Ralph W. Beeson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. He is the author, with J. Keith Elliott, of Art and the Christian Apocrypha (2001). He and the late David L. Dungan published the first edition of Documents for the Study of the Gospels in 1980 and a second edition in 1994.

David L. Dungan was distinguished professor of the humanities and emeritus professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville until his death in 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0529057263
• ISBN 13: 9780529057266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298