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Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels

By Bartosz Adamczewski

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang
Year
2013
ISBN
9783631628980, 9783653031522, 3631628986
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4105427 bytes)
Series
European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
Pages
241\241
Time added
2023-10-20 04:34:23

Description

This book demonstrates that the Gospels originated from a sequential hypertextual reworking of the contents of Paul’s letters and, in the case of Matthew and John, of the Acts of the Apostles. Consequently, the new quest for the historical Jesus, which takes this discovery into serious consideration, results in a rather limited reconstruction of Jesus’ life. However, since such a reconstruction includes, among others, Jesus’ messiahship, behaving in a way which was later interpreted as pointing to him as the Son of God, instituting the Lord’s Supper, being conscious of the religious significance of his imminent death, dying on the cross, and appearing as risen from the dead to Cephas and numerous other Jewish believers, it can be reconciled with the principles of the Christian faith.

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