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Reinventing Jesus, how contemporary skeptics miss the real Jesus and mislead popular culture, J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, Daniel B. Wallace

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-332) and indexes

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Reinventing Jesus

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J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, Daniel B. Wallace

how contemporary skeptics miss the real Jesus and mislead popular culture

From the worldwide phenomenon of The Da Vinci Code to the national best-seller Misquoting Jesus, popular culture is being bombarded with radical skepticism about the uniqueness of Christ and the reliability of the New Testament. Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt expressed by these and several other contemporary voices to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a firsthand look at the solid, reasonable, and clearly defensible evidence for Christianity's origins. Reinventing Jesus shows believers that it's okay to think hard about Christianity, and shows hard thinkers that it's okay to believe

I believe in yesterday -- The Gospel behind the Gospels -- Oral tradition and a memorizing culture -- An eccentric Jesus and the criteria of authenticity -- Politically corrupt? the tainting of ancient New Testament texts -- Can we trust the New Testament? the quantity and quality of textual -- Variants -- Myths about manuscripts -- An embarrassment of riches : recovering the wording of the original New Testament text, part 1 -- The methods of textual criticism : recovering the wording of the original New Testament text, part 2 -- Is what we have now what they wrote then? -- Did the early church muzzle the canon? -- The range of the canon -- What did the ancient church think of forgeries? -- What did the ancient forgers think of Christ? -- The divinity of Jesus : early tradition or late superstition? -- Divine portraits : Jesus in the Gospels -- Supreme devotion : Jesus in the larger New Testament -- From the pens of fathers and foes : Jesus outside the New Testament -- Simply divine? the real issue at Nicea -- Stealing thunder : did Christianity rip off mythical gods? -- Parallelomania : supposed links between Christianity and pagan religions -- The virgin birth of Alexander the great? -- Osiris, Frankenstein, and Jesus Christ