Sayings of Jesus: Canonical and Non-Canonical

Books about Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus

Sixteen studies by leading New Testament scholars on the canonical and non-canonical Sayings of Jesus. Source, form, textual, redaction, and literary criticism are brought to bear on selected passages, resulting in significant advances in the examination of the sayings tradition.

With ca. 120 articles from ca. 100 writers from ca. 20 countries, this publication forms a repository where students and scholars can readily get to know their way around the breadth of recent research on the historical Jesus.

Just how did the Jewish and Christian Bibles come together? Why were some ancient texts excluded? Or included and later rejected? What were the criteria? This volume deals with a significant issue in light of the many and significant discoveries of ancient sacred or religious texts that were not included

This volume explores nearly every facet of Jesus research -- from eyewitness criteria to the reliability of memory, from archaeology to psychobiography, from oral traditions to literary sources, and from narrative criticism to Gospel criticism. Bringing together a wide variety of topics and perspectives in one volume, this ambitious collaborative