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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...

why tell stories about Jesus, and what has that to do with anything that was happening in the early church? I think it possible to have a fresh look at why the church attributed such authority to Jesus’ words and to then explore the role that the Jesus tradition had in shaping the early churches. Second, how was the Jesus tradition transmitted? Some like to imagine that the transmission of the Jesus tradition was much like a game of “telephone” or “Chinese whispers.” On such an analogy, an initial
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