The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition (2007 Eddy, Boyd), book

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The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition (2007) is a book by Paul R. Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd.

Abstract

The study of ancient oral traditions shows that lengthy stories were often handed down very accurately over long periods of time. Since the period of oral tradition for the Gospels was relatively short, the possibility that the portrait of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels is historically reliable, is very likely. The authors contend that in fact the Synoptic Gospels offer the most historically probable representation of the Historical Jesus--a representation that includes and confirms his supernatural features.

Editions

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007.

Contents

  • Historical method and the Jesus tradition: miracles, parallels and first-century Palestine
  • Other witnesses: ancient historians and the Apostle Paul
  • Between Jesus and the Gospels: the early oral Jesus tradition
  • The Synoptic Gospels as historical sources for Jesus: assessing the evidence

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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