- Taschenbuch: 280 Seiten
- Verlag: Booklocker Inc.,US (16. Mai 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1591139554
- ISBN-13: 978-1591139553
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.856.982 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The most comprehensive and systematic review of the life of the historical Jesus critically examines myth vs. reality concerning his birth, family, childhood, ministry, personal life, teachings, death, and resurrection. Provocative and challenging, but thoroughly researched and documented.
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The most comprehensive and systematic review of the life of the historical Jesus critically examines myth vs. reality concerning his birth, family, childhood, ministry, personal life, teachings, death, and resurrection. Provocative and challenging, but thoroughly researched and documented.
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Great start to deconstructing the historical Jesus
14. Oktober 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
This book could have saved me a lot of money if it had been written earlier. Many scholars on the historical or mythological Jesus spend pages and pages tripping over themselves to make a point. The books pile up, and you find yourself dizzy and still unable to dissect the Canonical Gospels or first century Palestine.
Gardner writes a concise, clear book that spells out the irregularities and misconceptions with the traditional Jesus as Western Society has come to know him. Paragraphs make solid points, and there are charts, definitions and tables that compare all the scholarship, ancient and modern, on the historicity of Jesus Christ. Gardner's sources are solid and so are his insights. In fact, he brings new revelations to the table that I hadn't heard before about early Christianity.
This book decidedly points that there is a problem with Christianity, and the problem lies with assuming and not knowing the truth behind its founder.
And I'm not talking about Saint Paul, but about the big guy himself.
If you've had questions all your life about who really is Jesus of Nazareth, this is a perfect beginning to a road you might regret because the truth tends to hurt some people.
Abraxas
Gardner writes a concise, clear book that spells out the irregularities and misconceptions with the traditional Jesus as Western Society has come to know him. Paragraphs make solid points, and there are charts, definitions and tables that compare all the scholarship, ancient and modern, on the historicity of Jesus Christ. Gardner's sources are solid and so are his insights. In fact, he brings new revelations to the table that I hadn't heard before about early Christianity.
This book decidedly points that there is a problem with Christianity, and the problem lies with assuming and not knowing the truth behind its founder.
And I'm not talking about Saint Paul, but about the big guy himself.
If you've had questions all your life about who really is Jesus of Nazareth, this is a perfect beginning to a road you might regret because the truth tends to hurt some people.
Abraxas
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1. Januar 2008
Format:Taschenbuch
Gardner has done his homework. I checked every Biblical reference and was pleased to see that there was no tendency to bias nor an effort to deceive. An easy read with much to say.
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Challenges the Traditional Views
28. Juni 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
Dr James Gardner has taken years of scholarly research and created a book for the lay person (like me!). It is well written and comprehensive, covering every aspect of Jesus' life from birth to death and beyond. Comparable books about Jesus usually focus on one or two asepcts, but Gardner attempts to cover everything (was he married? was his mother a virgin? what was his relation ship to John the Baptist? was he the suffering servant? etc).
Gardner's theme is myth vs. reality and he manages to stick to this theme throughout, sometimes showing the origins of the myth as well. I found it very interesting and it certainly changed my mind about lots of issues. I especially liked the use of tables and bullet points, which made it easier to see the weight of the evidence he presents. It's probably one reason why he packs so much information into relatively so few pages. Comparable books I've read are usually much longer.
I'm not sure I agree with Dr. Gardner's ultimate conclusions, although he does present a lot of evidence to support them. His idea is that Jesus and his family were Essenes, and he accounts for many of the questionable aspects in the gospels by attribution to this theory (eg., we don't know much about Jesus' childhood because he was raised in Qumran). He believes that Jesus' group was a major political force, numbering in the thousands, and this accounts for the reason Jesus is killed. And he provides a plethora of information that Jesus was bothered by a lifelong stigma of being a "mamser".
I have only two criticisms of the book. Gardner begins with a very interesting and informative critique of the methodological issues involved in doing biblical research, but he fails to follow through when he himself discusses the issues about Jesus' life. I guess he assumes his own model, but I would have preferred some explanations even at the expense of lengthening the book. Also, I felt that the detailed approach adopted in this book failed to give me a sense of who Jesus was as a person. Authors like Chilton play fast and loose with the details, but we get a clear picture of who Jesus was as an individual. In Dr. Gardner's concern with detailing the myth vs. reality in every aspect of Jesus' life, there is a tendency to throw out the baby with the bath water. That being said, his section on Jesus' personality does provide deep insight into what was going on in Jesus' mind, and I wish that section were longer.
I give this book 5 stars. It is not without some faults, but the overwhelming positive aspects discussed above deserve a 5.
Gardner's theme is myth vs. reality and he manages to stick to this theme throughout, sometimes showing the origins of the myth as well. I found it very interesting and it certainly changed my mind about lots of issues. I especially liked the use of tables and bullet points, which made it easier to see the weight of the evidence he presents. It's probably one reason why he packs so much information into relatively so few pages. Comparable books I've read are usually much longer.
I'm not sure I agree with Dr. Gardner's ultimate conclusions, although he does present a lot of evidence to support them. His idea is that Jesus and his family were Essenes, and he accounts for many of the questionable aspects in the gospels by attribution to this theory (eg., we don't know much about Jesus' childhood because he was raised in Qumran). He believes that Jesus' group was a major political force, numbering in the thousands, and this accounts for the reason Jesus is killed. And he provides a plethora of information that Jesus was bothered by a lifelong stigma of being a "mamser".
I have only two criticisms of the book. Gardner begins with a very interesting and informative critique of the methodological issues involved in doing biblical research, but he fails to follow through when he himself discusses the issues about Jesus' life. I guess he assumes his own model, but I would have preferred some explanations even at the expense of lengthening the book. Also, I felt that the detailed approach adopted in this book failed to give me a sense of who Jesus was as a person. Authors like Chilton play fast and loose with the details, but we get a clear picture of who Jesus was as an individual. In Dr. Gardner's concern with detailing the myth vs. reality in every aspect of Jesus' life, there is a tendency to throw out the baby with the bath water. That being said, his section on Jesus' personality does provide deep insight into what was going on in Jesus' mind, and I wish that section were longer.
I give this book 5 stars. It is not without some faults, but the overwhelming positive aspects discussed above deserve a 5.
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