The Resurrection of Christ - Softcover

Luedemann, Gerd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334025605 ISBN 13: 9780334025603

Publisher: SCM Press, 2012

Synopsis

Since his student days, Gerd Ludemann has noted how both New Testament scholars and theologians have tended to be evansive about what actually happened at the resurrection of Jesus. How was Jesus seen? Was the tomb really empty, and, if so, what happened to the body? Dissatisfied with so much of what he read, he set out to write his own book, making a thourough examination of all the passages relating to the resurrection in the New Testament, beginning with the fanmous verse in 1 Corinthians 15 and going through to the last chapter of John's Gospel. The results of this exhausttive study are largely negative, Ludemann succeeds in demonstrating just how much tradition and the evangelists themselves have contributed to the Easter story. THis is an honest scholarly book with the ring of truth, and needs to be read without prejudice. Those who do so will find that in fact it is remarkably positive.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerd Ludemann is Professor of New Testament at the University of Gottingen in Germany and Director of the Institute of Early Christian Studies. He taught for several years at Vanderbilt Divinity School and has authored several works of New Testament scholarship, including "What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approach to the Resurrection".

About this edition

• Publisher: SCM Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0334025605
• ISBN 13: 9780334025603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272