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Understanding the Bible: Sixth Edition, 6/e
Stephen Harris, California State University--Sacramento
Additional Portraits of Jesus:Noncanonical Gospels and the Quest for the Historical Jesus

Chapter Objectives

What you will learn in this chapter:

  • The characteristics of some of the non-canonical gospels
  • What these gospels tell us about the historical Jesus and about how early Christians interpreted Jesus
  • How historians approach gospels and other sources as evidence concerning the historical Jesus
  • Some of the ways in which scholars agree and disagree concerning who Jesus was and what he said.









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