Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Licona, Mike (1961-....)
Titre(s) : Why are there differences in the gospels? [Texte imprimé] : what we can learn from ancient biography / Michael R. Licona ; foreword by Craig A. Evans
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-308 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Compositional textbooks ; Who was Plutarch? ; Parallel pericopes in Plutarch's
lives ; Parallel pericopes in the canonical gospels ; Synthetic chronological placement
in the gospels ; Pericopes appearing two or more times in the nine lives of Plutarch
examined ; Pericopes appearing two or more times in the canonical gospels examined
; Which women were present at the cross, burial, and empty tomb? ; Biosketches of
main characters in Plutarch's lives.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 269-280. Index
Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the
manner in which they report the same events. These differences have led many conservative
Christians to resort to harmonization efforts that are often quite strained, sometimes
to the point of absurdity. Many people have concluded the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory
and therefore historically unreliable as accounts of Jesus. The majority of New Testament
scholars now hold that most if not all of the Gospels belong to the genre of Greco-Roman
biography and that this genre permitted some flexibility in the way in which historical
events were narrated. However, few scholars have undertaken a robust discussion of
how this plays out in Gospel pericopes (self-contained passages). Why Are There Differences
in the Gospels? provides a fresh approach to the question by examining the works of
Plutarch, a Greek essayist who lived in the first and second centuries CE. Michael
R. Licona discovers three-dozen pericopes narrated two or more times in Plutarch's
Lives, identifies differences between the accounts, and analyzes these differences
in light of compositional devices identified by classical scholars as commonly employed
by ancient authors. The book then applies the same approach to nineteen pericopes
that are narrated in two or more Gospels, demonstrating that the major differences
found there likely result from the same compositional devices employed by Plutarch.
Showing both the strained harmonizations and the hasty dismissals of the Gospels as
reliable accounts to be misguided, Licona invites readers to approach them in light
of their biographical genre and in that way to gain a clearer understanding of why
they differ
Sujet(s) : Plutarque (0046?-0120?) -- Critique et interprétation
Bible. N.T.. Évangiles -- Sources
Biographie antique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190264260 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0190264268 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780190264284 (erroné) (epub)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45248271b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45248271
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