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Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions

by Nicholas A Elder

  • Hardback
  • 344 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.6 cm

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For scholars exploring ancient gospel contexts

Challenges misconceptions about reading and writing

You will gain fresh insights into gospel traditions

This book redefines how we understand the gospels through ancient media practices.

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Contextualizing the gospels in ancient Greco-Roman media practices New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and spread of the gospels. Yet this scholarship has spread myths or misconceptions about how the ancients read, wrote, and published texts. Nicholas Elder updates our knowledge of the gospels' media contexts in this myth-busting academic study. Carefully combing through Greco-Roman primary sources, he exposes what we take for granted about ancient reading cultures and offers new and better ways to understand the gospels. These myths include claims that ancients never read silently and that the canonical gospels were all the same type of text. Elder then sheds light on how early Christian communities used the gospels in diverse ways. Scholars of the gospels and classics alike will find Gospel Media an essential companion in understanding ancient media cultures.
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  • Title

    Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions

  • Author

    Nicholas A Elder

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    January 2024

  • Weight

    618g

  • Page Count

    344

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802879219

  • ISBN-10

    0802879217

  • Eden Code

    6275658

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