This landmark study of the literary relationship between the gospel of John and the synoptic gospels presents compelling evidence for the existence of a written pre-canonical Alpha gospel that contained almost all of the main episodes in the adult life of Jesus and which became the written source for the core biography of Jesus in all four gospels.

Autorentext

Gary Greenberg is the author of The Judas Brief and Proving Jesus Authority in Mark and John. He served for over a decade as the President of the Biblical Archaeology Society of New York. Presently retired, he holds a Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University.

Inhalt

List of Tables - Usage Notes - Editor's Preface - Acknowledgments - The Problem of Mark Versus John - A Trail of Breadcrumbs - The Paralytic on the Mat - True Kindred and the Devil - You Can't Go Home Again - The Mission Begins - Jesus' Last Visit to Jerusalem - The Plot to Kill Jesus - The Jewish Trial of Jesus - The Lazarus Conundrum - The Roman Proceedings - The Cruci xion - The Day of Preparation - The Resurrection - The Proto-gospel Restored with Brief Commentary - Proving the Case for a Proto-gospel - Index.