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  • How God Became Jesus

    The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature---A Response to Bart Ehrman

    by Michael F. Bird, Craig A. Evans, Simon Gathercole, Charles E. Hill, Chris Tilling ...
    In his recent book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee historian Bart Ehrman explores a claim that resides at the heart of the Christian faith— that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. According to Ehrman, though, this is not what the earliest disciples believed, nor what Jesus claimed about himself.The first response book to this latest challenge to Christianity ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Apocryphal Gospels

    Edited by Simon Gathercole ...
    A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospelsIn the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryphal' gospels, alternative versions of the story of Christ. Sometimes these texts complemented the four canonical gospels of the New Testament, sometimes they subverted them and often they were completely different. Here, in the widest selection of non ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • What Did the Cross Accomplish?

    A Conversation about the Atonement

    by Simon Gathercole, Robert B. Stewart, N.T. Wright ...
    In this book, readers will enjoy a fascinating and cordial discussion between N. T. Wright and Simon Gathercole on the meaning and nature of the doctrine of atonement. These two highly respected scholars discuss in clear and understandable language the meanings of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Their discussion explores various theories of atonement and looks closely at the Old Testament to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Celsus in his World

    Philosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century

    Edited by James Carleton Paget, Simon Gathercole ...
    Celsus penned the earliest known detailed attack upon Christianity. While his identity is disputed and his anti-Christian treatise, entitled the True Word, has been exclusively transmitted through the hands of the great Christian scholar Origen, he remains an intriguing figure. In this interdisciplinary volume, which brings together ancient philosophers, specialists in Greek literature, and ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Love as "Agape"

    The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse

    by Oda Wischmeyer, Wayne Coppins, Simon Gathercole ...
    Translated by Wayne Coppins ...
    Series series Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity
    In our fraught global environment, when political and ideological lines are drawn ever sharper and old allegiances are increasingly strained, love for neighbor as both individual and societal obligation needs to be thematized and justified anew. At the same time, the New Testament call to love one’s enemies forms a sharp point of contrast to the current non-culture of hatred for all things ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Gospel Reading and Reception in Early Christian Literature

    Edited by Madison N. Pierce, Andrew J. Byers, Simon Gathercole ...
    Before the early Christian evangelists were Gospel writers, they were Gospel readers. Their composition process was more complex than simply compiling existing traditions about Jesus, then ordering them into a narrative frame. Rather, these writers were engaged in a creative and dynamic act of theological reception. 'Gospel reading' refers to this innovative and often artistic use of source ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Defending Substitution

    An Essay on Atonement in Paul

    by Simon Gathercole, Lee McDonald, Craig Evans ...
    Series series Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology
    In recent decades, the church and academy have witnessed intense debates concerning the concept of penal substitution to describe Christ's atoning sacrifice. Some claim it promotes violence, glorifies suffering and death, and amounts to divine child abuse. Others argue it plays a pivotal role in classical Christian doctrine. Here world-renowned New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole offers an ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas

    Original Language and Influences

    by Simon Gathercole ...
    Series Book 151 - Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
    This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 2nd ed.

    The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

    by Richard Bauckham ...
    A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updatedWinner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as "anonymous ... Read more

    $56.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jesus Before the Gospels

    How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of early Christianity.Throughout much of human history, our most important stories were passed down orally—including the stories about ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Jesus Became God

    The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early Church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the ... Read more

    $15.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Heretic

    Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God

    by Catherine Nixey ...
    "A brilliant book...illuminates a forgotten world." —The Times, Best of the Year"Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again." ―The Economist, Best of the YearFrom a celebrated classicist and author of The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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