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Hypertextuality and Historicity in the Gospels: 3 New Edition
Author(s): Bartosz Adamczewski (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date: 28 Jan. 2013
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 241 pages
- ISBN-10: 9783631628980
- ISBN-13: 3631628986
Book Description
This book demonstrates that the Gospels originated from a sequential hypertextual reworking of the contents of Paul’s letters and, in the case of Matthew and John, of the Acts of the Apostles. Consequently, the new quest for the historical Jesus, which takes this discovery into serious consideration, results in a rather limited reconstruction of Jesus’ life. However, since such a reconstruction includes, among others, Jesus’ messiahship, behaving in a way which was later interpreted as pointing to him as the Son of God, instituting the Lord’s Supper, being conscious of the religious significance of his imminent death, dying on the cross, and appearing as risen from the dead to Cephas and numerous other Jewish believers, it can be reconciled with the principles of the Christian faith.
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About the Author
Bartosz Adamczewski is associate professor of New Testament exegesis at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Poland). He has published several books on the relationships between biblical writings and historical facts.
