The Lost Gospel
The Book of Q and Christian Origins
Description
The first book to give the full account of the lost gospel of Jesus' original followers, revealing him to be a Jewish Socrates who was mythologized into the New Testament Christ.
How does this rediscovered text—the Book of Q—radically reshape our understanding of Christian origins?
- The Lost Gospel: Explore the discovery and reconstruction of Q, a collection of Jesus’s teachings used by Matthew and Luke but lost to history for nearly two millennia.
- A Jewish Socrates: Uncover a portrait of Jesus not as a divine savior, but as a Cynic-like teacher of wisdom who challenged the social conventions of first-century Galilee.
- The First Followers: Meet the "Jesus people" of Q—a movement that followed a teacher’s social program and did not worship a Christ, regard his death as a saving event, or believe in the resurrection.
- Christian Mythmaking: See how the narrative gospels mythologized a wisdom teacher into the New Testament Christ, and what this process reveals about the true origins of Christianity.
Genres
Released2013
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN9780062275684
SellerHarperCollins
About the author(s)
Burton L. Mack is John Wesley Professor of the New Testament at the school of Theology at Claremont and the author of The Lost Gospel: The Book Q and Christian Origin and A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins.
