The Mythological Acts of the Apostles
Author : Agnes Smith Lewis
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
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Author : Agnes Smith Lewis
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
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Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861077
Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
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Author : Agnes Smith Lewis
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
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Page : 5 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Sean McDowell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317031903
The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the 16th century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. Whilst other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter, Paul, John, and James, there is little published information on the other apostles. In The Fate of the Apostles, Sean McDowell offers a comprehensive, reasoned, historical analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul, and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostle’s martyrdom as well as determining its significance to the reliability of their testimony. The question of the fate of the apostles also gets to the heart of the reliability of the kerygma: did the apostles really believe Jesus appeared to them after his death, or did they fabricate the entire story? How reliable are the resurrection accounts? The willingness of the apostles to die for their faith is a popular argument in resurrection studies and McDowell offers insightful scholarly analysis of this argument to break new ground within the spheres of New Testament studies, Church History, and apologetics.
Author : Matthew V. Novenson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199844577
He then traces the rise and fall of "the messianic idea"' in Jewish studies and gives an alternative account of early Jewish messiah language: the convention worked because there existed both an accessible pool of linguistic resources and a community of competent language users. Whereas it is commonly objected that the normal rules for understanding "christos" do not apply in the case of Paul since he uses the word as a name rather than a title, Novenson shows that "christos" in Paul is neither a name nor a title but rather a Greek honorific, like Epiphanes or Augustus. Focusing on several set phrases that have been taken as evidence that Paul either did or did not use "christos" in its conventional sense, Novenson concludes that the question cannot be settled at the level of formal grammar. Examining nine passages in which Paul comments on how he means the word "christos", Novenson shows that they do all that we normally expect any text to do to count as a messiah text.
Author : Randel Helms
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1615922938
Are the four canonical Gospels actual historical accounts or are they imaginative literature produced by influential literary artists to serve a theological vision? In this study of the Gospels based upon a demonstrable literary theory, Randel Helms presents the work of the four evangelists as the "supreme fictions" of our culture, self-conscious works of art deliberately composed as the culmination of a long literary and oral tradition.Helms analyzes the best-known and the most powerful of these fictions: the stories of Christ's birth, his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, his betrayal by Judas, his crucifixion, death and resurrection. In Helms' exegesis of the Gospel miracle stories, he traces the greatest of these - the resurrection of Lazarus four days after his death - to the Egyptian myth of the resurrection of Osiris by the god Horus.Helms maintains that the Gospels are self-reflexive; they are not about Jesus so much as they are about the writers' attitudes concerning Jesus. Helms examines each of the narratives - the language, the sources, the similarities and differences - and shows that their purpose was not so much to describe the past as to affect the present.This scholarly yet readable work demonstrates how the Gospels surpassed the expectations of their authors, influencing countless generations by creating a life-enhancing understanding of the nature of Jesus of Nazareth.
Author : Henk Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004204903
Abandoning monolithic approaches and embracing the possibility of inconsistencies and incongruities in Greek thought, behaviour, and culture, this book investigates how ancient Greeks could validate the complementarity of dissonant, if not contradictory, representations in e.g.polytheism, theodicy, divine omnipotence and ruler cult.
Author : William Denton
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Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
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