The Gospels as Stories

The Gospels as Stories

Author: Jeannine K. Brown

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 149342355X

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Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is filled with numerous examples and visual aids that show how narrative criticism brings the text to life, making it an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on the Gospels. Readers will gain hands-on tools and perspectives to interpret the Gospels as whole stories.


Silent Witnesses in the Gospels

Silent Witnesses in the Gospels

Author: Allan F. Wright

Publisher: Charis/Servant Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781569553237

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The servants who filled the jars at Jesus' command when he turned the water into wine the boy who donated his loaves and fishes so Jesus could multiply them the woman with the alabaster jar who anointed Jesus' feet. All these and many more characters in the Gospels share one important trait: in the biblical accounts where they appear, they are silent. We have no record of their words. Nevertheless, they have much to say to us by the ways they responded to Christ. Take a journey of the imagination with author Allan Wright, back to New Testament times, to consider what kinds of lives these people might have lived and what lessons we might learn from the Silent Witnesses in the Gospels.


Reading the Gospels Wisely

Reading the Gospels Wisely

Author: Jonathan T. Pennington

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1441238700

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This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to reading this New Testament genre as Scripture. It is also ideally suited to serve as a supplemental text to more conventional textbooks that discuss each Gospel systematically. Most textbooks tend to introduce students to historical-critical concerns but may be less adequate for showing how the Gospel narratives, read as Scripture within the canonical framework of the entire New Testament and the whole Bible, yield material for theological reflection and moral edification. Pennington neither dismisses nor duplicates the results of current historical-critical work on the Gospels as historical sources. Rather, he offers critically aware and hermeneutically intelligent instruction in reading the Gospels in order to hear their witness to Christ in a way that supports Christian application and proclamation.


128 Greatest Stories from the Bible

128 Greatest Stories from the Bible

Author: Dan Harmon

Publisher: Barbour Publishing

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1620294605

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These ancient yet compelling stories, passed down from generation to generation, are as timeless as the lessons they teach. The scenes and people may change, but God and his Word do not. The lives of these Bible characters will inspire, challenge, and encourage you in your walk with God.


Beautifully Distinct

Beautifully Distinct

Author: Trillia Newbell

Publisher: The Good Book Company

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1784985260

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Inspires women to engage with life and culture in a God-honouring way. How should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to either disengage completely, or find ourselves being influenced more and more by the world. In this book, godly, clear-thinking women talk about a range of areas of life and culture. They help us to be thoughtful about films, books, and the media; set out biblical principles for approaching topics such as body image and racism; and encourage us to shape the world around us for Christ-becoming beautifully distinct.


Q, the Earliest Gospel

Q, the Earliest Gospel

Author: John S. Kloppenborg

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2008-10-03

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 161164058X

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Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his significance--and one that differs markedly from that offered by its contemporary, the apostle Paul. Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it. Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.


Six New Gospels

Six New Gospels

Author: Margaret Hebblethwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781561010875

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As Margaret Hebblethwaite explores the story of six women, each one especially close to Jesus at one moment or another in his life, she has produced a book that is original in its method and eye-opening in its implications.


Jesus Before the Gospels

Jesus Before the Gospels

Author: Bart D. Ehrman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0062285238

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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 Christianity. Throughout much of human history, our most important stories were passed down orally—including the stories about Jesus before they became written down in the Gospels. In this fascinating and deeply researched work, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman investigates the role oral history has played in the New Testament—how the telling of these stories not only spread Jesus’ message but helped shape it. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman draws on a range of disciplines, including psychology and anthropology, to examine the role of memory in the creation of the Gospels. Explaining how oral tradition evolves based on the latest scientific research, he demonstrates how the act of telling and retelling impacts the story, the storyteller, and the listener—crucial insights that challenge our typical historical understanding of the silent period between when Jesus lived and died and when his stories began to be written down. As he did in his previous books on religious scholarship, debates on New Testament authorship, and the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, Ehrman combines his deep knowledge and meticulous scholarship in a compelling and eye-opening narrative that will change the way we read and think about these sacred texts.


The Bible's Greatest Stories

The Bible's Greatest Stories

Author: Paul Roche

Publisher: Signet

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0451531922

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From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, here are the greatest accounts from the greatest book ever written, presented in an accessible form for contemporary readers. Enhanced with annotations, Paul Roche's brilliant retelling of these stories is at once impeccably accurate and vibrantly told. He brings to life the saga of Joseph and the coat of many colors, the drama of the fall of Jericho, the heroism of a young David fighting Goliath and the lust of an older David for Bathsheba, the glory and wisdom of Solomon, the bravery of Judith, the dark despair of Job, the faith of Daniel in the lion's den, the joy of the Nativity, and the miracle of the Resurrection. These are just a few of the many great biblical stories presented in this masterful translation by a distinguished poet and scholar.


Gospel Light

Gospel Light

Author: John Shea

Publisher: Crossroad

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780824517090

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This book opens the eye of the soul, and focuses on the teachings of Jesus from a spiritual point of view.