Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus

by Alan Millard and Allan Millard

Book Overview

Jesus never wrote a book. The main sources about him, the Four Gospels, were written some forty years after his death, and contentious debates reign concerning their sometimes contradictory portrayals, which accounts are credible, and how far their authors may have altered or invented episodes to support a view or doctrine of the early Church.
Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814756379
• ISBN13: 9780814756379
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"