Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (2nd edn): A Compendium Of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship (Black Dictionaries) by J B GREEN (PDF)

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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels is unique among reference books on the Bible, the first volume of its kind since James Hastings published his Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels in 1909. In the more than eight decades since Hastings, our understanding of Jesus, the Evangelists and their world has grown remarkably. New interpretive methods illumined the text, the ever-changing profile of modern culture has put new questions to the Gospels, and our understanding of the Judaism of Jesus’s day has advanced in ways that could not have been predicted in Hastings’s day. But for many readers of the Gospels the new outlook on the Gospels remains hidden within technical journals and academic monographs. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, Sabbath) to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, sociological approaches), from key events (such as the birth, temptation and death of Jesus) to each of the four Gospels as a whole. Some articles – such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic traditions and revolutionary movements at the time of Jesus – provide significant background information to the Gospels. Others reflect recent and less familiar issues in Jesus and Gospel studies, such as divine man, ancient rhetoric and the chreiai. Contemporary concerns of general interest are discusses in articles covering such topics as healing, the demonic and the historical reliability of the Gospels. And for those entrusted with communicating the message of the Gospels, there is an extensive article on preaching from the Gospels. The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels presents the fruit of evangelical New Testament scholarship at the end of the twentieth century – committed to the authority of Scripture, utilising the best of critical methods, and maintaining dialog with contemporary scholarship and challenges facing the church.

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⭐Don’t waste your money on a kindle book that cannot be used to copy and paste or cite from. Also, the dictionaries vocabulary letter links are useless. They don’t work! This kindle book is worthless.

⭐I found this dictionary to be so comprehensive that I have just been reading it like a book. I love the references to what sources are used for the information. This is a dictionary for bible scholars. I liked it enough to go ahead and purchase the other volumes of the set (total of 8).

⭐Product is very good and nice and would recommend. That being said I would not order anything from this seller again. It took 20 days to receive package from northern Maryland to South Eastern PA. This is do to seller using book rate shipping.

⭐Unquestionably, a most valuable and welcome update to the original first volume in the so-called IVP “Black Dictionaries” (from their covers/jackets). Just about anything anyone could want to know about Jesus and the Gospels, as well as contemporary studies of the topic, is in this book. Bibliographies to get seminarians pointed to further literature. I have already bought 2 copies–one for our church library as soon as it was released to keep the whole 8 volume series up to date, which we gave to a visiting professor of NT studies because she didn’t yet have it, and a replacement for that for our library. A “layperson” could use the book, too, one might be overwhelmed by how much information is actually available! In many of the longer articles, multiple viewpoints are discussed, too.

⭐I have the first edition of this dictionary, so I was glad to see an updated version available. I hope updates are completed for the whole series of dictionaries. The books are a great asset to any Library.

⭐I love this book. I’m getting the whole series soon

⭐This dictionary is very hard to use and not something I would recommend. Bought for a college course and couldn’t use.

⭐I found everything I need in this book for a biblical student.The ease of looking up certain subjects was a breeze.

⭐One of my children is being taught RS A-level by a teacher who is clever, funny and influential, but who is teaching with a personal agenda. His core message is that the Gospels are inherently unreliable, and that their key passages about Jesus’ claims to divinity were not written as reasonably contemporary history but were inserted a century or more later, as propaganda to justify a theology which had by then developed. Researching these issues myself, I discovered that it was very difficult to find material which was written without an obvious bias one way or the other.I therefore asked a few academic theologians for recommendations. I wanted something (a) with serious scholarship behind it, and (b) not written with an agenda. This book was the one which they all mentioned, so I got it, and I am very glad that I did.First, it has a good breadth of topics. It does what it says on the label: it’s a dictionary. So it is arranged in alphabetical order, by topic. If you want to know about Pontius Pilate, or the genealogy of Jesus, or who wrote the Gospel of Matthew, or whatever, you turn to the relevant place and see what’s there. Generally speaking there is always an entry relevant to what you would like to know, and so far there have been very few disappointments (though they do occur – I was surprised to find no separate entry on Judas Iscariot, for example).Second, when you find the relevant entry, the content is really first rate. The books operates by elegant summary: of the historical material (eg what ancient sources say); of the main academic viewpoints; of any controversies and so on. There are extensive references to more detailed works if you want/need to know more (and sometimes you do, because it’s only a dictionary and can only do so much, though usually it’s more than adequate). The writing is clear, concise and neutral.Third, I greatly value the fact that it manages both to be a detached and academic work, and yet to be written with sympathy to Christianity. It does not proselytise, and it does not shrink from difficulties. But having summarised the difficulties, it will often offer up a short, quiet suggestion of how Christian thought accommodates them.I am finding it invaluable, and am learning a great deal from it.

⭐Authoritative and highly informative articles. Now one of my most valuable reference books

⭐Very good book

⭐A good reference book

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