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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...

1:1, 14–15). Mark does not distinguish terminologically between the gospel of Jesus and the post-Easter gospel about Jesus, for he assumes that the church’s proclamation of the gospel springs forth from the word of Jesus (see esp. Mark 13:10; 14:9).59 However, there are tangible differences between an oral message and a written book, and this is not insignificant. The Gospels are not constrained by the limitations of oral performance, but are carefully devised literary constructs. The Gospels reflect
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