TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehraman,Bart D.
TI  - Jesus before the gospels: how the earliest Christians remembered, changed and invented this stories of the Saviour
SN  - 9780062285201
AV  - BT 303.2 .E37 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harperone, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishsers
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sources
N1  - Many believe that the Gospels stories of Jesus are based on eyewitness testimony and are therefore historically reliable. Now for the first time, a scholar of the New Testament, New York times best selling author Bart D. Ehrman (misquoting Jesus; and Jesus interrupted), surveys research from the fields of psychology, anthropology, and sociology to explore how oral traditions and group memories really work and questions how reliable the Gospels can be. Focusing on the decades-long gap between when Jesus lived and when these documents about him began to appear, Ehrman looks to these varied disciplines to see what they can tell us about the New Testament developed
ER  -