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100 1 _aAkenson, Donald Harman
_eAuthor.
245 1 0 _aSaint Saul
_h[electronic resource]:
_bA Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus.
260 _aMontreal :
_bMcGill-Queen's University Press.
300 _a352 p.
506 _aAvailable for distribution in: CANADA, USA, UNITED KINGDOM.
520 8 _aAnnotation
_b<div>In this follow-up to his acclaimed Surpassing Wonder, Akenson recreates the world of Christ, a time rich with ideas, prophets, factions, priests, savants, and god-drunk fanatics. Saint Saul sheds light on Yeshua's birth and his relationship to his family, clarifies Yeshua's views on issues such as divorce and resurrection, and examines his sense of himself as Messiah. Throughout Saint Saul Akenson insistently stresses the Jewishness of Yeshua. He dismisses the traditional way of searching for facts about him by looking for parallels among the four gospels, arguing that the gospels were handed down as a unit by a later generation. In contrast Saul, although he did not know Yeshua personally, knew his most important followers and wrote immediately after his death. Saul's teachings were approved, though sometimes reluctantly, by Yeshua's brothers and other early leaders. Akenson sifts and probes the evidence for and against the historical status of Saul and Yeshua, a mystery as fascinating as a good detective story and one where readers must come to their own conclusions about the circumstances and texts that gave rise to two great world-faiths, Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.</div>
538 _aAvailable electronically via the Internet.
653 _aBible
653 _aJesus Christ
653 _aJesus Christ
653 _aReligion
653 _aReligion
653 _aReligion
856 4 0 _uhttp://0-site.ebrary.com.library.vu.edu.au/lib/victoriauni/Top?id=10196802
_zFull text available from Ebrary Academic Complete International Subscription Collection
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