Jesus and the Ossuaries
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Word Count
42,000 words, Guess
Page Count
168 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8342122M
- ISBN-139780918954886
- ISBN-100918954886
- OCLC Control Number52720687
- OCLC Control Numberjesusossuarieswh00evan
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003016223
- Goodreads2525391
- LibraryThing1321847
Classifications
- LCCDS111.9 .E93 2003
Description
"The recent discovery and exhibition of an ancient Jewish ossuary (a burial box) that bears the inscription "James the son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" has stunned scholars and the public alike. While the story of the ossuary's authenticity unfolds, what is not shrouded in mystery is that this ossuary is only one of several that shed important archaeological light on the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. In Jesus and the Ossuaries Craig A. Evans helps all readers, expert and layperson alike, understand the importance this recent find might have for the quest for the historical Jesus and any historical reconstruction of early Christianity."--Jacket.
First Sentence
In what must be one of the eeriest stories narrated in the New Testament Gospels, we are told that when Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Kinneret Lake) and entered the country of the Gerasenes, "there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs," a man no one was able to subdue, a man who "night and day among the tombs" was "crying out, and bruising himself with stones" (Mark 5:1-5).
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