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Bezig met laden... Apparitions of Jesus: The Resurrection as Ghost Storydoor Robert Conner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fascinating. It's amazing how much one can be ignorant about growing up within a religious bubble where significant scholarship is excluded from your awareness -- even if you think you're open-minded! Robert Conner argues successfully, in my opinion, that whoever wrote the New Testament gospels constructed them by drawing on the cultural beliefs and motifs around ghosts at the time. The implications of this, along with a whole range of scholarship about the resurrection of Jesus, that the resurrection of Jesus as a historical event is almost impossible to defend -- at least with any objective evidence. Conner writes with clarity and conciseness and is a pleasure to read. Highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in the resurrection of Jesus and who is open to reading something that challenges their ideas. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Could the folklore of ancient ghost stories be the basis for the resurrection accounts of the New Testament? Recent scholarship surveyed in APPARITIONS OF JESUS suggests that early Christians poured their heady new wine--a man saved the world by rising from the dead--into the old wineskins of familiar legend. Combining his own research with the insights of publications past and present, Conner leads us down haunted hallways of Greco-Roman ghost lore to illuminate neglected corners of the gospels. Along the way, finding yet another human side to the beloved old tales, we understand how ghostly apparitions were spoken about for much the same reason modern-day people still see them: a psychological response vividly experienced by those suffering great loss. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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