Reinventing Jesus
Subtitle: what the Da Vinci code and other novel speculations don't tell you
By: by J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace.
Contributors: Sawyer, M. James.; Wallace, Daniel B.
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Historicity; Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc; Apologetics; Popular culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I believe in yesterday; title: The Gospel behind the Gospels; title: Oral tradition and a memorizing culture; title: An eccentric Jesus and the criteria of authenticity; title: Politically corrupt? the tainting of ancient New Testament texts; title: Can we trust the New Testament? the quantity and quality of textual; title: Variants; title: Myths about manuscripts; title: An embarrassment of riches : recovering the wording of the original New Testament text, part 1; title: The methods of textual criticism : recovering the wording of the original  New Testament text, part 2; title: Is what we have now what they wrote then?; title: Did the early church muzzle the canon?; title: The range of the canon; title: What did the ancient church think of forgeries?; title: What did the ancient forgers think of Christ?; title: The divinity of Jesus : early tradition or late superstition?; title: Divine portraits : Jesus in the Gospels; title: Supreme devotion : Jesus in the larger New Testament; title: From the pens of fathers and foes : Jesus outside the New Testament; title: Simply divine? the real issue at Nicea; title: Stealing thunder : did Christianity rip off mythical gods?; title: Parallelomania : supposed links between Christianity and pagan religions; title: The virgin birth of Alexander the great?; title: Osiris, Frankenstein, and Jesus Christ.