Four Gospels, One Jesus?: A Symbolic Reading
Description
In this very readable book Richard Burridge depicts Jesus through the four Gospel authors' distinctive portraits of him. Without bogging down readers with technical terminology, Burridge brings to bear his research comparing the Gospels with classical biographies and offers a clear interpretation of each Gospel author's portrait. A striking feature is his use of the ancient symbols for the Gospels -- human face, lion, ox, and eagle -- to represent each book's unique picture of Jesus.This second edition incorporates the latest scholarship on the historical Jesus, a new section...
ISBN(s)
0802829805, 9780802829801
