"Fabricating Jesus" is a challenge to the “sloppy scholarship and misguided theories” proposed in recent books and movies about Jesus. The author, Craig Evans, discusses numerous proposed historical sources for Jesus such as the Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, the Secret Gospel of Mark as well as
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"Fabricating Jesus" is a challenge to the “sloppy scholarship and misguided theories” proposed in recent books and movies about Jesus. The author, Craig Evans, discusses numerous proposed historical sources for Jesus such as the Gospel of Peter, the Egerton Gospel, the Secret Gospel of Mark as well as Nag Hammadi texts like the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary. One of the appendices is devoted to the newly discovered Gospel of Judas—Dr. Evans was one of the scholars who worked on the reconstruction of that text.Evans also discusses archaeology, historical methodology and the criteria for determining historical reliability. Numerous theories about Jesus are examined ranging from relatively serious proposals to the truly bizarre. Craig Evans, is the author of numerous books and articles, and is a world-class historical Jesus scholar, one of the few who not only knows Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, but also Syriac and Coptic which are necessary for the study of ancient documents like, for example, the Nag Hammadi texts which were written in Coptic. Dr. Evans has studied under or worked with some of the most prominent biblical scholars in this generation.Fabricating Jesus contains a glossary, extensive end notes, recommended reading, author index, subject index, scripture index, and an index of extracanonical ancient sources. The book was written for non-specialists, but the material is “meaty” and the average reader may find that it is not always easy reading. Still, the book well worth the effort and is truly outstanding!
