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Ausgabe: | Mai/2023 |
Spalte: | 447-449 |
Kategorie: | Bibelwissenschaft |
Autor/Hrsg.: | Watson, Francis |
Titel/Untertitel: | What is a Gospel? |
Verlag: | Grand Rapids u. a.: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2022. 353 S. Geb. US$ 49,00. ISBN 9780802872920. |
Rezensent: | Mariusz Rosik |
After picking up Francis Watson’s book entitled What is the Gospel? and browsing through the table of contents, a question immediately springs to mind: why does the author select these and not the other apocryphal (and heretical, as he himself states) writings? There are, after all, many more similar writings. Why does W. want to introduce the reader to these and not the other biblical characters mentioned in extra-biblical early Christian writings? After all, a choice of other characters could be made.
The answer can be found in the introduction, from which we learn that the book is a collection of papers given at various seminars or academic conferences held in a number of academic centres (xiii). The key term linking the various chapters is »gospel«, which, ...
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