Tag: Gospels

Free Download O Wesley Allen Jr, "Reading the Synoptic Gospels: Basic Methods for Interpreting Matthew, Mark, and Luke"
English | ISBN: 082723225X | 2013 | 192 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This revised and expanded introductory text introduces students of the Bible to the layers of meaning that can be uncovered by serious study of the synoptic gospel texts. Included are two new chapters introducing ideological exegetical approaches to the gospels and a concluding chapter that helps the student synthesize the exegetical discoveries they have made using the methods taught in the book.

Free Download Bill Endres, "Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts: The St. Chad Gospels, Materiality, Recoveries, and Representation in 2D & 3D "
English | ISBN: 1942401795 | 2019 | 128 pages | PDF | 12 MB
What does it mean to digitize a medieval manuscript? This book examines this question by exploring a range of advanced imaging technologies, from multispectral to 3D to reflectance transformation imaging. To understand imaging technologies requires an understanding of the complex materiality of what is being digitized and, to this end, the book focuses on the relationship between digital technologies and the complex materiality of manuscripts and the human bodies that engages them.

Free Download Paul A. Rainbow, "The Making of the Synoptic Gospels: Exploring the Ancient Sources"
English | ISBN: 1009485377 | 2024 | 388 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Why are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke so similar, yet different? Modern scholars have developed four main approaches to the synoptic problem: That the evangelists tapped into testimonies about Jesus, or drew from many written fragments, or used a common exemplar, or modified each other’s work. The first three approaches find solid support in antiquity, yet ironically, the fourth approach dominates gospel scholarship, without producing any consensus. In this study, Paul A. Rainbow reclaims the discarded proto-gospel hypothesis of the earliest modern critics, based on a fresh reading of traditions recorded by Papias in the early second century CE. He challenges the Utilization hypotheses – that the synoptists adapted the work of each other, in various theoretical configurations – by offering an historically nuanced hypothesis of a proto-gospels, which the three evangelists independently translated into Greek from Hebrew and enriched with oral testimonies and written fragments available to them.

Free Download Sylvie Chabert D’Hyères, "Luke at the Birth of the Gospels"
English | ISBN: 1036406628 | 2024 | 208 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book provides a new view on Luke’s Gospel by introducing it as the source of the New Testament. A close reading of the works of Flavius Josephus and Latin inscriptions confirms the validity of the chronological landmarks delivered by the Evangelist. Together these three sources form a cohesive whole like a puzzle with finely-tuned pieces. The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis, which preserves the oldest known text of the Gospels and Acts written in Greek, attests that the Evangelist fulfilled the purpose of veracity advertised in the preface. The reliability of his work is linked to its early publication, in the decade following the events so that even Mark and Paul had knowledge of it. From this point of view, the "Lukan priority" that preserves the historical truth about Jesus’ life, would no longer be just an assumption. In this context, the conditions under which the Third Gospel was written are revealed, and with them, the objectives pursued by those who assumed responsibility for it, and who can be identified. Let us hope these pages will encourage other biblical Scholars to investigate the Third Gospel and Acts from the perspective of the "Lukan priority".

Free Download Hojoon Ahn, "Finding the Synoptic Gospels Construction Process: A Comparative-linguistic Analysis of the Eucharist and Its Co-texts "
English | ISBN: 9004696326 | 2024 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This study conducts an analysis of the Eucharist within the Synoptic Gospels including their co-texts via a Mode Register Analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics to trace the construction process of each designated text.

Free Download Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB1WW4GK | 2024 | 9 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 272 MB
Author: Michael R. Licona
Narrator: Tom Parks
The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude that the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory and, therefore, historically unreliable accounts of Jesus. In Jesus, Contradicted, New Testament scholar Michael Licona shows how the genre of ancient biography, to which the Gospels belong, actually allows biographers to be flexible in how they report events, construct a narrative, and make an argument. Licona demonstrates that the intentional changes to the Jesus tradition by the Evangelists reveal that the differences in how the Gospels report events are not grounds for their rejection. Instead, they are a result of the Gospel writers employing standard literary conventions common in their time for writing ancient biography.

Free Download Stephen J. Binz, "Women of the Gospels: Friends and Disciples of Jesus (Ancient-Future Bible Study)"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 158743282X | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
Ancient-Future Bible Study incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church’s most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. This time-honored practice consists of five basic movements: biblical study (lectio), reflection (meditatio), prayer (oratio), discernment (contemplatio), and contemplative action (operatio). In six clearly written volumes, bestselling author Stephen Binz helps readers study the Bible in a way that leads to spiritual transformation and brings them closer to God.

Free Download The Text of the Synoptic Gospels in the Writings of Origen
Fiona Thompson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1463245637 | 496 Pages | True PDF | 5.16 MB

Free Download David E. Garland , Darrell L. Bock, "NIVAC Bundle 6: Gospels, Acts (The NIV Application Commentary)"
English | 2015 | pages: 5553 | ASIN: B0178GIGOA | EPUB | 8,6 mb
The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today” context.

Free Download Clarke Owens, "Son of Yahweh: The Gospels As Novels"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1782790675 | EPUB | pages: 153 | 2.0 mb
What if we pretended that the gospels were stories with beginning, middle, and end; set in a world similar to our own; and requiring consistent character development?How would the image of crucifixion be understood by a Palestinian population in the First Century, C.E.?Why do Peter and John witness Jesus raising a dead child to life in one scene, and in the next, ask each other what resurrection means?How does the story of Lazarus originate from a parable about a rich man who is desolate in the afterlife while a poor man is comforted?How does Judas become more and more villainous as stories about him are retold?How does the resurrection myth of the 19th Century Lakota resemble the Christian myth?Why does Peter strike a man dead for refusing to share his wealth with members of a Christian commune?Why is Peter more miraculous than Paul?These are just a few of the questions raised by this provocative and ground-breaking essay which proves that literary study can be truly challenging.