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The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest believers formed the Gospel accounts of Jesus that got written and, in turn, how these accounts further shaped the early church. Bird’s study clarifies the often confusing debates over the...

Jesus is God’s chief actor to bring forth the kingdom, represented the hub of their worldview, story-telling, community practice, political rhetoric, and future hopes. The transition from Jesus’ own preaching vocabulary and Jewish Christian usage of בשׂרה and בסורת into the Greek εὐαγγέλιον was probably facilitated by Greek-speaking Jewish Christians in the Jerusalem church, for the “glad tidings” concerning Jesus the Messiah.53 A message in the early church known as the “gospel” appears to be
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