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Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
By Ehrman, Bart D.
- ISBN
- 9780062285201 9780062285232
- Publisher
- HarperOne
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Reviewed on March 1, 2016 | Spiritualandreligion
In this work, New Testament scholar Ehrman (religious studies, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Misquoting Jesus) draws sharp distinctions between oral culture, with its inaccurate transmissions, and modern historiography's factual exactness; eyewitness testimony and recent psychological studies; and cultural memories and modern sociology, to show how a community's motivations and concerns alter what information is m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
