Gospel Truth?: New Light on Jesus and the Gospels - Hardcover

Stanton, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563381370 ISBN 13: 9781563381379

Publisher: UNKNO, 1995

Synopsis

On 24 December 1994 The Times of London reported the claim by the German scholar Carsten Thiede that the three papyrus fragments of Matthew's Gospel held in Oxford since 1901 date from the first century, a hundred years earlier than previously thought.
Graham Stanton, one of Britain's most eminent New Testament scholars and a leading specialist on Matthew's Gospel, was among the first to call the new findings into question. Now his fascinating new book offers a readable and objective account of the arguments, and also the claim that a fragment of Mark's Gospel has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Furthermore, it gives a comprehensive survey of all the evidence - literary and archaeological - for the life and teaching of Jesus and the origin and purpose of the gospels. There are many fresh new insights.

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From the Back Cover

Christmas 1994: A German biblical scholar claims that a fragment of a gospel was a contemporaneous record of Christ's life. Graham Stanton's essay puts this claim to the test. In 1994, German biblical scholar Carsten Thiede announced that one of the oldest surviving fragments of a gospel (held in Britain) was even older than had previously been claimed. He stated that it was contemporaneous with Christ, an eye-witness account rather than a second-century retrospective. The Times picked up the story and Thiede has published his thesis under the title The Jesus Papyrus (Weidenfeld and Nicholson). Graham Stanton was the first top scholar to call the new thesis into question, claiming that the original dating of the fragments was correct. Gospel Truth is his brilliant essay on the whole question of the dating of the New Testament texts, and the claim that a fragment of Mark's Gospel has been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. With a comprehensive survey of available evidence for the origin and purpose of the gospels, this book has profound implications for our understanding of the significance of Christ.

About the Author

Graham Stanton has been Professor of New Testament Studies at King's College in the University of London since 1977.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1563381370
• ISBN 13: 9781563381379
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215