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Who Wrote the Gospels?
Who Wrote the Gospels? 

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Who wrote the Gospels? Certainly NOT Matthew, NOT Mark, NOT Luke and NOT John... The names that are associated with the Gospel writers are all second-century guesses. If this comes as a surprise, welcome to the cutting edge of modem biblical scholarship. There is a lot more to understanding and interpreting one of the most influential collection of works in Western history than the simple viewpoints we were taught as children.

Nearly a century after the four Gospels were finished, Christians in the late second century, eager to give names to the anonymous manuscripts they possessed, selected traditional figures that they supposed should have written them - the Apostles Matthew and John, Luke the "beloved physicist" of Paul (Col. 4:14), and John Mark of Jerusalem, the "son" of Peter (Acts11:12; I Peter 5:13).

With first-rate scholarship, compelling storytelling, and religious sensitivity, Arizona State University professor and biblical scholar Dr. Randel Helms answers the following questions:

- Was the author we know as Luke a woman?

- What were some of the errors that Mark made that Luke and Matthew sought to correct?

- How do we know the Gospel of John was written by three different authors of widely conflicting opinions?

- How was first-century Christianity even more theologically diverse than it is today?

- Where was the lost Sayings Gospel of Q rediscovered by scholars?

- How do the Gospels tell us more about their authors' motives than they do about Jesus?

- Which famous gospel stories were drawn from pagan drama and myth?

According to Helms the gospels were written to convert or confirm their readers to Christianity (surely no shameful project); they are the highly colored arguments of powerful authors, not just transparent windows upon the historical Jesus.

If we adjust our focus from the brilliant imaginative pictures to the individuals that produced them, and the situations out of which they arose, we get to the point of this book - a study of the minds of the authors we call Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Dr. Randel Helms, a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, teaches courses in Bible as Literature, World Literature, and 29th-Century Romantic Literature. He is the author of the highly acclaimed and controversial book, Gospel Fictions - also available on this website - that now has over 150,000 copies in print.

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Author Randel McCraw Helms
ISBN# 0965504735
Type Quality Paperback
Year 1997
Pages 190
Illustrated yes
Base Cost 8.00
Price: $14.95

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