"In his recent book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee historian Bart Ehrman explores a claim that resides at the heart of the Christian faith--- that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. According to Ehrman, though, this is not what the earliest disciples believed, nor what Jesus claimed about himself. The first response book to this latest challenge to Christianity from Ehrman, How God Became Jesus f ..."
"The first problem is that, because the paradox of Christ's humanity and divinity
arises first and foremost from the books the early ... one that resulted from the
later orthodox struggling to come to grips with two apparently irreconcilable
affirmations. ... Then only a few verses later, the same book and the same author
says, “The Word became flesh and made his ... that the two ideas about Jesus
Christ were “completely different,” ..."
"This volume seek to demonstrate the intricate dynamics of this controversial figure's theological and textual reception through foundational essays on specific texts and themes."
The Apocryphal Gospels (Paperback) by SimonGathercole Paperback, Published 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-241-34055-4, ISBN: 0-241-34055-1
The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas Original Language and Influences (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by SimonGathercole Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 2014 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-68616-8, ISBN: 1-107-68616-4
"This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more controverted question: that of the relation ..."
The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas(1st Edition) Original Language and Influences (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by SimonGathercole Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00904-2, ISBN: 1-107-00904-9
"This book addresses two central questions in current research on the Gospel of Thomas: what was its original language and which early Christian works influenced it? At present, theories of Thomas as a Semitic work abound. Simon Gathercole dismantles these approaches, arguing instead that Thomas is Greek literature and that the matter of Thomas's original language is connected with an even more controverted question: that of the relation ..."
Heaven On Earth The Temple In Biblical Times by SimonGathercole Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2003 by Paternoster Press Import ISBN-13: 978-1-84227-166-7, ISBN: 1-84227-166-0
"The debate over the extent of Jewish influence upon early Christianity rages on. At the heart of this argument lies the question of Jesus: how does the fate of a first-century Galilean Jew inspire and determine the nature, shape, and practices of a distinct religious movement? Vital to this first question is another equally challenging one: can the four Gospels be used to reconstruct the historical Jesus? In Jesus and Judaism, Martin H ..."
"In this fourth volume of the Baylor–Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist. Wolter’s commentary fully complements the great tradition of "Handbooks of the New Testament" published by Mohr Siebeck. Replacing the third edition of Erich Klostermann’s commentary on Luke, Wolter’s volume rightly joins those by Conzelmann (Acts), Käsemann (Romans), ..."
"Jörg Frey has devoted decades of his scholarly career to exploring the rich landscape of John’s Gospel. Frey chronicles the results of this work in The Glory of the Crucified One, demonstrating how the Gospel sits at the very heart of the New Testament witness.Frey begins by locating his approach to the Gospel in relation to five classic ways John has been interpreted (Part 1) and by offering a summary of the results of his own interpre ..."
"In this fifth volume of the Baylor–Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist's Gospel (Luke 9:51–24). Wolter's commentary fully complements the great tradition of "Handbooks of the New Testament" published by Mohr Siebeck. Replacing the third edition of Erich Klostermann's commentary on Luke, Wolter's volume rightly joins those by Conzelma ..."
"In this fourth volume of the Baylor–Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist. Wolter's commentary fully complements the great tradition of "Handbooks of the New Testament" published by Mohr Siebeck. Replacing the third edition of Erich Klostermann's commentary on Luke, Wolter's volume rightly joins those by Conzelmann (Acts), Käsemann (Romans), ..."