Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth
by Mack, Burton L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-29
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
The Making of the Christian Myth Commencing in mid February 2004, SBS TV (Australia) will run a twopart documentary based on this title. In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Mack's innovative scholarship which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding' will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity arose. The clarity of Mack's prose and the intelligent pursuit of his subject make compelling reading. Mack's investigation of the various groups and strands of the early Christian community out of which were generated the texts of Christianity's first anthology of religious literature and makes sense of a topic that has been confusing.
Table of Contents
| Prologue: The Mystique of Sacred Scripture | p. 1 |
| Jesus and the Christ | |
| Clashing Cultures | p. 19 |
| Teachings from the Jesus Movements (Q, Pronouncement Stories, Gospel of Thomas, Miracle Stories, the Pillars in Jerusalem) | p. 43 |
| Fragments from the Christ Cult (Christ Myth, Ritual Meal, Christ Hymn) | p. 75 |
| Christ and the Hinge of History | |
| Paul and His Gospel (1 and 2 Thessalonians, Galatians) | p. 99 |
| Paul's Letters to Greeks and Romans (1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, Philemon, Philippians) | p. 123 |
| Gospels of Jesus the Christ (Mark, Matthew, Luke) | p. 147 |
| Visions of the Cosmic Lord (John, Colossians, Ephesians, Hebrews, Revelation) | p. 175 |
| Letters from the Apostles (Pastoral Epistles, Catholic Epistles, James, Johannine Letters) | p. 199 |
| History and the Christian Myth | |
| Inventing Apostolic Traditions (Acts, Didache, 1 Clement, Ignatius) | p. 225 |
| Claiming Israel's Epic (Marcion, Valentinus, Justin Martyr) | p. 251 |
| Creating the Christian Bible (Canons, Mishnah, Eusebius, Jerome) | p. 275 |
| Epilogue: The Fascination of the Bible | p. 293 |
| Appendix A: Early Christian Literature | p. 311 |
| Appendix B: The Contents of Q | p. 312 |
| Appendix C: The Pronouncement Stories in Mark | p. 314 |
| Works Cited | p. 317 |
| Index | p. 321 |
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