PARALLEL GOSPELS IN HARMONY - with STUDY GUIDE lets you read and study the four Gospels in parallel columns with corresponding passages side-by-side, using the modern language World English Bible. It's also copyright-free, so that anyone can reproduce it. A disciple in the garden of Gethsemane cuts off the ear of the high priestâs servant according to all four Gospels. But only John tells us the servantâs name, and that it was Peter who wielded the sword. And only Luke tells us that Jesus healed the wound. This book allows you to see all of this at a glance.
In this highly readable introduction to the Gospels, Edward Adams demonstrates how the four canonical Gospels function separatelyâ€"as unique accounts of Jesus' lifeâ€"and as narrative renditions of a shared story: the Fourfold Gospel. Building on the premise that the Gospels are ancient biographies or "lives of Jesus," Adams examines parallel Gospel passages, highlighting the similarities and differences between them. He begins by approaching the four Gospels generally, then looks at each of them individually, and finally considers six key Gospel passages to further explore the unity and plurality of the Gospels in a more focused way. Adams's lucid prose helps to make this text ideal for beginning students of the Gospels.
The author Robert M. Sutherland is an accomplished Canadian criminal and civil trial lawyer with 34 years at the bar in five provinces, having had some notable successes, changing the law nationally and provincially at various points in time. He is philosophically a moderate realist and a natural law thinker, in the tradition of the three great Western thinkers: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and MortImer J. Adler and a former Canadian director of the Chicago-based think-tank “Mortimer J. Adler’s Centre for the Study of the Great Ideas”. He is an evangelical Christian and a member of the United Church of Canada. This is how he would format the testimonial evidence of the various gospel writers in the court of public opinion for the purpose of assessing their individual and collective credibility and reliability and ultimately their three basic historical claims: namely, (1) Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be divine. (2) He died for that claim. (3) He rose again from the dead to establish the truth of that claim. These are purely historical matters, knowable and provable on a balance of probabilities. And to assist the reader he has provided some helpful methodologies for understanding the nature of truth, the nature of the natural moral law and the nature of historical inquiry.
The Parallel Chronological Gospels puts all four gospels in parallel columns, and the life of Jesus Christ in chronological order. The sequence of events in parallel columns are highlighted in vertical hierarchy, and is easy to follow without confusion about the timing, location, and context of such events. Readers may choose to read only the highlighted portions of parallel passages, or read the entire account in each gospel side by side. In this work, the King James Version has been modified by changing archaic words to modern, easy-to-understand synonyms, to produce a unique modified King James Version (mKJV), that is refreshingly quite readable and easy to understand. The Parallel Chronological Gospels will revolutionize your reading, and comprehension of the gospel accounts of Jesus' life.
An essential resource for the analytical study of the gospels, The Complete Gospel Parallels goes beyond the standard parallels. The Complete Gospel Parallels lucid translation, its easy-to-use format, and its broad range of gospel materials will enhance and deepen the serious reader s appreciation of early Christian tradition and literature.
Parallel Gospels: A Synopsis of Early Christian Writing is an indispensable guide that enables readers to examine more easily how and where the early Christian gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Thomas, and Q--agree and disagree. Using his own unique approach to translating the original Greek texts into English, Zeba A. Crook offers the most literal, word-for-word translation available, helping readers to compare the structure, order, style, theology, and vocabulary of each gospel with the others. FEATURES: * The word-for-word translation (one English word for every Greek word) allows readers who are not proficient in ancient languages to accurately compare the various versions of the gospels * A detailed Introduction explains the purpose of this book, while a "How to Read a Synopsis" section outlines how to use it * Synoptic Study Guides clarify and expand on concepts covered in the gospels and in biblical scholarship * A Glossary of Greek Terms enables students to look up every English word in the translation and find the Greek word behind it Ideal for university and seminary courses in the New Testament, the Gospels, the historical Jesus, and Christian origins/early Christianity, Parallel Gospels is also an invaluable resource for clergy and interested lay readers. PACKAGING & SAVINGS Consider packaging this book with The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, Fifth Edition, or A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Second Edition, both by Bart D. Ehrman, for use in your course and SAVE YOUR STUDENTS 20%! Please contact your Oxford University Press sales representative at 800.280.0280 for details.
