Origin of the Four Gospels
- Author: Constantin von Tischendorf
- Translator: William L. Gage
- Date Published: January 2012
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108043335
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Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–74) was a pioneering textual scholar of the New Testament, who discovered and transcribed early manuscripts, notably the Codex Sinaiticus, his acquisition of which provoked long-lasting controversies. The original German edition of this book appeared in 1865, and sold 2,000 copies in three weeks; this English translation (1868) was based on the improved and expanded fourth German edition (1866). In it, Tischendorf applies his enormous knowledge of early Christian literature and the oldest Latin, Greek and Syriac gospel manuscripts to the question of the date of the canonical gospel texts, which, he argues, had been established by the end of the first century. Parts of the book are highly polemical, with Tischendorf referring to 'the Tübingen fantasy-builder and the Parisian caricaturist' in his attempt to refute contemporary theories about the person of Jesus. Nevertheless his translator engagingly describes him as a 'great and genial' scholar.
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- Date Published: January 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108043335
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Translator's preface
Author's preface
1. The Gospels our sources for the life of Jesus
2. Importance of the historical witnesses for the Gospels
3. Evidence from the last decades of the second century
4. Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clemens of Alexandria, the canon of Muratori, the oldest Latin and Syriac translation
5. Shortly before Irenaeus
6. First and fourth quarters of the second century
7. Justin and the Epistle to Diognetus
8. The Gospel of the Hebrews
9. The literature of heresy before and in the middle of the second century
10. Marcion
11. Montanism and the Alogians
12. Celsus vs. Christianity
13. The New Testament apocryphal literature
14. The pseudo-Clementines
15. Barnabas
16. When and how to come to a decision regarding the four Gospels
17. The testimony of Papias
18. New Testament criticism
19. Its evidence as to a lost form of Matthew and Mark
20. The text of the second century presupposes a full history of the canon, and gives evidence of its existence at about the close of the first century
21. Evidence omitted
22. Misunderstandings and hypotheses regarding the Gospel of John
23. Concluding remarks.
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