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An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels 18183
“Jesus and the Gospels” is one of the most popular religion courses at colleges, and it is required at many seminaries and divinity schools. This textbook, written by an award-winning educator, is designed for a semester-long course in both these settings. Moreover, it could be used as a supplementary text in courses on christology, the historical Jesus, New Testament literature, and the Bible.
Murphy will provide an introduction to the gospels that does justice to the full range of modern critical methods and insights. He will discuss the implications of these methods for how we understand the nature of the gospels and how we can read them today. The chapters will sketch the portrait of Jesus that emerges from each gospel, and then examine the “canonical” view of Jesus by comparing and contrasting these pictures, as well as the ones that emerge from the non-canonical gospels and from the modern quest for the historical Jesus.
Chapter
Introduction, Theological and Historical Backgrounds;
Chapter 1, What is a Gospel?
Chapter 2, History of Critical Methods for Gospel Study;
Chapter 3, The Gospel of Mark;
Chapter 4, Q;
Chapter 5, Matthew;
Chapter 6, Luke;
Chapter 7, John;
Chapter 8, Other Gospels (Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospels, other Apocryphal Gospels); Chapter 8, Christian Interpretations of Jesus;
Chapter 9, The Historical Jesus;
Chapter 10, Conclusion; Glossary; Further Reading; Notes; Subject Index. (Charts, sidebars, illustrations, and maps.)
Murphy will provide an introduction to the gospels that does justice to the full range of modern critical methods and insights. He will discuss the implications of these methods for how we understand the nature of the gospels and how we can read them today. The chapters will sketch the portrait of Jesus that emerges from each gospel, and then examine the “canonical” view of Jesus by comparing and contrasting these pictures, as well as the ones that emerge from the non-canonical gospels and from the modern quest for the historical Jesus.
Chapter
Introduction, Theological and Historical Backgrounds;
Chapter 1, What is a Gospel?
Chapter 2, History of Critical Methods for Gospel Study;
Chapter 3, The Gospel of Mark;
Chapter 4, Q;
Chapter 5, Matthew;
Chapter 6, Luke;
Chapter 7, John;
Chapter 8, Other Gospels (Gospel of Thomas, Infancy Gospels, other Apocryphal Gospels); Chapter 8, Christian Interpretations of Jesus;
Chapter 9, The Historical Jesus;
Chapter 10, Conclusion; Glossary; Further Reading; Notes; Subject Index. (Charts, sidebars, illustrations, and maps.)
466 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2005
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About the author
Frederick J. Murphy
11 books1 followerFrederick James Murphy (1949–2011) was professor of New Testament at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, for over twenty-five years. He authored numerous books, including Fallen Is Babylon: The Revelation to John, Early Judaism: The Exile to the Time of Jesus, and An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels. He received his PhD from Harvard University.
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July 20, 2015
I read much of this book, but not all of it, as was assigned for my course on the Gospels. I found this book to be very wordy and redundant. While I did not enjoy reading it as part of prep work, I can see that this book will be one I use going forward when I do exegetical work since it does dissect each Gospel in some detail.
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