Miracles and wonder : the historical mystery of Jesus / Elaine Pagels.
"From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Prophet, or a deluded visionary; a heretical Jew, or God in human form. In this groundbreaking work of accessible scholarship, Princeton University professor and bestselling author Elaine Pagels explores a wide range of sources-including the Bible, the earliest reports of Jesus's life, and the secret "gnostic gospels," discovered in the 20th century-to break down these contradictions and paint a richer and more complex portrait of Jesus in his own time than ever before. As Christians became the largest community of any religious tradition in the world, Pagels argues, people have constructed and reconstructed Jesus through the lens of imagination, his image shaped by the social, political, and economic challenges of their own time. But the most fascinating years of all were the early ones when a young Jewish man with a scanty following, executed humiliatingly as an insurrectionist, was transformed by his followers into the Jesus of Christianity. Powerfully written and drawing on decades of research, Miracles and Wonder is an essential history for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of Jesus and his monumental afterlife."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780385547468
- ISBN: 0385547463
- Physical Description: x, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Doubleday hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2025.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-302) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- The virgin birth: what happened? -- Who is Jesus? miracles and mysteries -- What is the "good news"? -- The crucifixion: what happened, and what could it mean? -- Resurrection: what did people say happened-and what can be known? -- How did Jesus "become God"? -- Who is Jesus to new converts, artists, and filmmakers engaging him today? -- Conclusion.
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