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Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? (Hardcover)

by Robert M. Price (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 389 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books (20 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1591021219
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591021216
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Written for the general reading public in a lively and accessible style, Dr Price's highly informative discussion will be of interest to anyone who has wondered about the origins of Christianity.

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5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate writing and thinking , 25 Oct 2007
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Very readable. Filled with information. Lots of details. Lots of speculation on the individual details. The title may seem flip but the contents aren't at all.

Price stands out: he seems to be in the top 1% of thinkers and writers. He seems open-minded, going carefully thru a lot of information, following thru on various hypotheses rather than just following those he might be attached to. He reserves concluding until the conclusion, first gathering over 300 pages of input. Even then, the book's conclusion is only 6 pages long: nothing heavy-handed, seemingly just another hypothesis to consider. But after all the details of the main text, that final hypothesis pulls the book together tightly and brings full weight to the inquiry Price has been sharing with you.

Price seems not to claim things he can't claim. He doesn't play the authoritative expert. But in his openness and thoroughness, he delivers not just a powerful conclusion but a powerful process. Here's a model that other scholars (more apt to make hasty claims based on their "superiority") would do well to follow. Finish this book and you won't have been sold an answer, but rather stimulated to seek out more yourself about Jesus and the New Testament.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The destructive side of biblical criticism, 4 Mar 2009
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I understand that the author was formerly a 'believer' and then lost his faith. I think this shows in some of the tone of this book, perhaps difficult to describe, but perhaps in a rather tired predisposition to be cynical. If it was the rather brittle North American evangelical belief rather than religious experience then I can understand how this can happen; swapping one intellectual understanding for another. With documents of this age then it is difficult to establish firm 'truth' and for the author to end up with no historical Jesus and no 'real' account of his teaching. Yet the author never seems to ask why anyone bothered to write these gospels in the first place. Unlike others I found his style wearisome. His constant references beg an awful lot from the reader; he keeps saying things like 'as X has shown Matthew was....' and it is then up to you to then go and buy X's book and decide whether you agree with that particular argument; if you follow this line then you will end up buying a great many books and I suspect most people will just accept the author's arguments without checking. Elsewhere on the web I have witnessed the author refusing to enter debate since others had not read particular books! I also found that the book gives many 'unmotivated' comparisons; just because a piece of writing is similar to other writings of its time does not mean they are both similarly motivated. Such that a piece of gospel is similar to a piece of a contemporary myth does not make them both myths; it rather shows were the author found a way to write; it does not demonstrate that the writers set out to copy or lie. As another has said, this might be a book to examine if you are interested in biblical criticism although it does take an extreme position. For a better written and far more cogent and creative attitude I would recommend reading Reinventing Jesus: How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture otherwise you might end up completely disillusioned!
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