Fabricating Jesus, Craig A. Evans
Fabricating Jesus, Craig A. Evans
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Fabricating Jesus
How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

Author: Craig A. Evans

Narrator: Shea Taylor

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/16/2022


Synopsis

Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring—just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media.

Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions predispose scholars to distort the record? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus?

Commenting on such recent releases as Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, James Tabor's The Jesus Dynasty, Michael Baigent's The Jesus Papers and the Gospel of Judas, for which he served as an advisory board member to the National Geographic Society, Craig Evans offers a sane approach to examining the sources for understanding the historical Jesus.

About Craig A. Evans

Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. He has appeared frequently as an expert commentator on network television programs, such as Dateline, and in various documentaries on the BBC, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by B.J.

John Dominic Crossan writes a biography of Jesus and he has the man come away looking like a skeptic. He portrays almost a Jewish version of Carneades. Reza Aslan writes a biography of Jesus and has the man coming away looking like, well... a zealot. His Jesus is almost the exact opposite in every w......more

Goodreads review by Rod

I've been holding off a while in writing this review. I was hoping to read the whole book again. There's some seriously amazing stuff in here. Craig A. Evans is my new hero. (and I just found out he used to live near me, and teach near me - can't believe I missed out on chatting with him daily). All......more

Goodreads review by David

Fabricating Jesus is written for a wide audience, from anyone who has been confused by much of the popular writing on Jesus recently (e.g. Da Vinci Code) to skeptics to scholars. After reading it I would highly recommend it to people who have not read much in historical Jesus scholarship for it prov......more

Goodreads review by Rafael

Isn't it incredible how anything about Jesus sells! So it's never a surprise when, just in time, every Easter, scholars roll out new "portraits" of Jesus. Time and Newsweek are always eager to comply - dousing their front pages with claims of "new finds" that change everything. There's a predictabil......more