![]() ![]() He coauthored Jesus, the Final Days with N. He's written hundreds of articles and reviews and published more than 70 books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies, Mark in the Word Biblical Commentary, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, God Speaks, and Jesus and the Remains of His Days: Studies in Jesus and Archaeology. He has regularly appeared in television and radio interviews, such as the History Channel, BBC, and Dateline NBC, served as a consultant on the National Geographic Society's Gospel of Judas project and for The Bible television miniseries, and is featured in documentaries like Fragments of Truth and the Archaeology and Jesus series. His passion for archaeology has him frequently participating in Middle East digs and leading Holy Land tours. He is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins (Houston Theological Seminary) a New Testament scholar and a prolific author and popular teacher/speaker.Įvans is well-known for his work on the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the archaeology of the New Testament. Evans earned his PhD in biblical studies at Claremont Graduate University and received his decretum habilitationis from Budapest. Evans argues that the evidence suggests that most of these autographs remained available for copying and study for more than one hundred years and thus stabilized the text.Ĭraig A. Of special interest is the question of how long the autographs of New Testament writings remained in circulation. Another important source of evidence about Jesus and early Christianity can be. If there is one story that is most commonly associated with Jesus, it is, hands down, this one. There are thousands more New Testament Greek manuscripts than any other. This particular story has become one of the defining portraits of Jesus yet, all 12 verses have been removed or footnoted in new translations. He also argues that Secret Mark, like the recently published Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, is probably a modern forgery. Jesus said He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her. Evans argues that the Gospel of Thomas is not early or independent of the New Testament Gospels but that it should be dated to the late second century. This book critically analyzes important texts and quotations in their original languages and engages the current scholarly discussion. This diverse literature includes the familiar Gospels of the New Testament, the much less familiar literature of the Rabbis and of the Qur’ān, and the extracanonical narratives and brief snippets of material found in fragments and inscriptions. Evans, introduces readers to the diversity and complexity of the ancient literature that records the words and deeds of Jesus. Jesus and the Manuscripts, by popular author and Bible scholar Craig A. Jesus and the Manuscripts, by popular author and Bible scholar Craig A. Logos Research Subscription for Schools.
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