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A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph A. Fitzmyer presents 25 succinctly phrased and candidly answered questions about Jesus. His book covers issues such as the virgin birth, the infancy narratives, Jesus’ claim to be the messiah, the historical accuracy and significance of the resurrection and ascension texts, the place of Peter and the apostles, the importance of the Apocryphal gospels, and more. This book holds insights for...

The sayings of Jesus in the synoptic gospels are to be distinguished from those in the Johannine tradition. In the synoptics, the sayings-material is found in general to be of three sorts: isolated sayings, parables, and pronouncements (what R. Bultmann called apophthegms). The last-mentioned are sayings embedded in the narrative tradition of the synoptics, i.e. stories recounted for the sake of the pronouncement