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Article: New Testament.(Jesus and Gospel, Caiaphas: Friend of Rome and Judge of Jesus?, Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith, Revelation Through the Centuries: The Apocalypse to Jesus Christ, Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation Through African American Culture, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, The People's New Testament Commentary, A Critical Introduction to the New Testament: Interpreting the Message and Meaning of Jesus Christ, Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine, The Battle for Middle-Earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings." )(Book Review)
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- October 18, 2005
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Jesus and Gospel. By Graham N. Stanton. (Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., $24.00 paperback.) The title of this volume only hints at the rich offerings inside. Impatient with the sloppy contemporary use of the word gospel in both ecclesial and scholarly settings, Stanton undertakes a rich correction, beginning with a discussion of the word in its earliest Christian contexts and concluding with a study of the Christian adoption of the codex for the Gospels and other writings.
Caiaphas: Friend of Rome and Judge of Jesus? By Helen K. Bond. (Westminster John Knox, 192 pp., $24.95 paperback.) This welcome study of the high priest Caiaphas first attempts to ...