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The Messiah Myth

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The Messiah Myth

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Since the eighteenth century, scholars and historians studying the texts of the Bible have attempted to distil historical facts and biography from the mythology and miracles described there. That trend continues into the present day, as scholars dissect the gospels and other early Christian writings to separate the Jesus of history from the Christ of faith . But in The Messiah Myth Thomas L. Thompson argues that the quest for the historical Jesus is beside the point, since the Jesus of the gospels never existed. ike King David before him, the Jesus of the Bible is an amalgamation of themes from Near Eastern mythology and traditions of kingship and divinity. The theme of a messiah a divinely appointed king who restores the world to perfection is typical of Egyptian and Babylonian royal ideology dating back to the Bronze Age. In Thompson's view, the contemporary audience for whom the Old and New Testament were written would naturally have interpreted David and Jesus not as historical figures, but as metaphors embodying long-established messianic traditions. Challenging widely held assumptions about the sources of the Bible and the quest for the historical Jesus, The Messiah

Author Biography

Thomas L. Thompson is the author of The Bible in History- How Writers Create a Past. He currently teaches at the prestigious Biblical Studies programme of the University of Copenhagen. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Release date NZ
July 13th, 2006
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Pages
432
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
157x241x38
ISBN-13
9780224062008
Product ID
1660853

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