The Written Gospel

by Edited by Markus Bockmuehl , Donald A. Hagner

• ISBN13: 9780521832854
• ISBN10: 0521832853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book comprehensively surveys the origin, production and reception of the canonical gospels in the early church. The discussion unfolds in three steps. Part One traces the origin of the 'gospel' of Jesus, its significance in Jewish and Hellenistic contexts of the first century, and its development from eyewitness memory to oral tradition and written text. Part Two then more specifically examines the composition, design and intentions of each of the four canonical gospels. Widening the focus, Part Three first asks about gospel-writing as viewed from the perspective of ancient Jews and pagans before turning to the question of reception history in the proliferation of 'apocryphal' gospels, in the formation of the canon, and in the beginnings of a gospel commentary tradition.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
List of abbreviations	xii
Introduction
Markus Bockmuehl and Donald A. Hagner	1	(6)
PART I BEFORE WRITING
1 'Gospel' in Herodian Judaea
William Horbury	7	(24)
2 The gospel of Jesus
Klyne Snodgrass	31	(14)
3 Q' as oral tradition
James D.G. Dunn	45	(25)
4 Eye-witness memory and the writing of the Gospels
Martin Hengel	70	(29)
PART II WRITING THE FOUR GOSPELS
5 Who writes, why, and for whom?
Richard A. Burridge	99	(17)
6 How Matthew writes
Richard C. Beaton	116	(19)
7 How Mark writes
Craig A. Evans	135	(14)
8 How Luke writes
David P. Moessner	149	(22)
9 How John writes
Judith Lieu	171	(13)
10 Beginnings and endings
Morna D. Hooker	184	(21)
PARK III AFTER WRITING
11 The Four among Jews
James Carleton Paget	205	(17)
12 The Four among pagans
Loveday Alexander	222	(16)
13 Forty other gospels
Christopher Tuckett	238	(16)
14 The One, the Four and the many
Ronald A. Piper	254	(20)
15 The making of gospel commentaries
Markus Bockmuehl	274	(22)
Appendix: Graham Stanton's publications	296	(5)
Bibliography	301	(36)
Index of ancient sources	337	(18)
Index of authors	355