Summary of Bart D. Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The polytheistic religions of the ancient Western world did not require bookish beliefs or ethical codes, as books played almost no role in their religion. Judaism, on the other hand, stressed its ancestral traditions, customs, and laws, and maintained that these had been recorded in sacred books.
#2 Christianity, the religion of Jesus, was also a bookish religion from the very beginning. Christians, from the very beginning, valued the books of their tradition.
#3 The first Christians wrote letters to each other, which were extremely important to the communities. These letters were later regarded as scripture.
#4 The New Testament is made up of letters written by Paul and other Christian leaders to Christian communities and individuals. These letters were important to the early Christian communities because they bound them together and helped make Christianity different from the other religions scattered throughout the empire.

Sujets

• Religion
• Biblical Studies
• General officer
• General
• Jésus de Nazareth
• Jesus
• Jesús de Nazaret

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669392590
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The polytheistic religions of the ancient Western world did not require bookish beliefs or ethical codes, as books played almost no role in their religion. Judaism, on the other hand, stressed its ancestral traditions, customs, and laws, and maintained that these had been recorded in sacred books.

#2

Christianity, the religion of Jesus, was also a bookish religion from the very beginning. Christians, from the very beginning, valued the books of their tradition.

#3

The first Christians wrote letters to each other, which were extremely important to the communities. These letters were later regarded as scripture.

#4

The New Testament is made up of letters written by Paul and other Christian leaders to Christian communities and individuals. These letters were important to the early Christian communities because they bound them together and helped make Christianity different from the other religions scattered throughout the empire.

#5

The life of Jesus was interpreted by Paul and others in light of the Jewish scriptures. These books were in wide use among Christians, who used them to see what they could reveal about God’s will.

#6

The lives of Jesus’s early followers were also of interest to the growing Christian communities of the first and second centuries. Accounts of the apostles were written, and many other fragments have survived only in fragments.

#7

The end of the world was a source of fascination for early Christians. They believed that God would soon intervene in the affairs of the world to overthrow the forces of evil and establish his good kingdom, with Jesus at its head.

#8

The early Christian communities were charismatic in nature, meaning that each member had a unique gift that assisted the community in its ongoing life. As the expectation of an imminent end of the world faded, it became clear that the Christian churches needed a more rigid structure.

#9

As Christianity grew, it was often opposed by Jews and pagans, who saw it as a threat to the social structure of the empire. This led to local persecutions of Christians, which eventually became official.

#10

The first accounts of apologies being written were by Christians who were also being persecuted for their faith. These accounts were produced as encouragement for those who were also being persecuted, and guidance about how to face the ultimate threats of arrest, torture, and death.

#11

From the earliest times, Christians were aware that there were various interpretations of the religion within their own ranks. To deal with this, Christian leaders began writing tractates that opposed heretics – those who chose the wrong way to understand the faith.

#12

The first Christian commentary on any text of scripture was written by a Gnostic named Heracleon, who wrote a commentary on the Gospel of John. Eventually, commentaries, interpretive glosses, and practical expositions on texts became common among the Christian communities of the third and fourth centuries.

#13

As Christianity grew, it began accepting other writings as authoritative in equal measure to the Jewish scriptures. The teachings of Jesus were seen as equal in authority to the words of the Jewish scriptures.

#14

After the New Testament period, certain Christian writings were being quoted as authoritative texts for the life and beliefs of the church. An outstanding example is a letter written by Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna, in the early second century.

#15

By the second century, a good portion of the Christian worship services involved the public reading of scripture.

#16

The formation of the Christian canon of scripture was heavily influenced by the teachings of Marcion, who was the first Christian to produce a canon of books that constituted the sacred texts of the faith.