Jesus in the first three Gospels

Millar Burrows, one of the country's leading biblical scholars, portrays the life and ministry of Jesus and presents a detailed study of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He traces Jesus' career from his birth through his resurrection and shows how and where the Gospel accounts differ and how and where they agree. A clearer, more satisfying, and more accurate picture of Jesus as a real person is presented for those persons to whom he is only a misty figure in the remote past or a theological abstraction or a divine friend, adored but thought of largely in terms drawn from imagination and wishful thinking. Dr. Burrows makes the difficulties encountered by a serious study of the Gospels plain and suggests a way to meet them that is in accord with Christian dedication and historical facts. In this clear presentation of the contents of the Gospels, Dr. Burrows presents specific, factual, and historical information rather than abstruce theory, technical detail, and debate on interpretation or theories of individual scholars. He gives full biblical references and puts in easily read language basic facts usually taken for granted by specialists. - Dust jacket.… (more)