San Paolo Edizioni

È la regina delle Bibbie della San Paolo in volume unico per l'accuratezza redazionale, tecnica e grafica con cui è eseguita, ora anche in EDIZIONE ECONOMICA DA STUDIO. La Bibbia Emmaus vuole porsi a pari, se non ad un livello superiore, delle migliori Bibbie oggi pronte all'uso da parte di chiunque (ex. Bibbia di Gerusalemme).Le caratteristiche principali de La Bibbia Emmaus sono: Testo biblico su una colonna, a due colori Introduzioni lunghe: generali, ai blocchi, ai singoli libri Note lunghe su due colonne, complete, aggiornatissime e pertinenti con la traduzione italiana del testo biblico Passi paralleli, a lato Indice analitico: concetti, fatti, nomi, glossario Sussidi Il testo è quello della Nuovissima versione della Bibbia

History
Penguin Classics
4.5
It's been 50 years since a Bedouin youth named Muhammed edh-Dhub went looking for a stray sheep and instead found the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the intervening decades, the scrolls have been enveloped in a storm of controversy and bitter conflict: the scholars entrusted with translating and editing the texts sat on many of them instead, creating suspicions that escalated to conspiracy theories about supposed cover-ups of sensitive, even damaging material. Geza Vermes, a former professor of Jewish studies at Oxford and a noted authority on the scrolls, marks the 50th anniversary of Muhammed edh-Dhub's find with his book The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English; the title, however, is misleading, for the collection of documents is by no means complete.

Vermes has left out the copies of Hebrew scriptures that are available elsewhere, instead focusing on the sectarian writings of the Essene community at Qumran and the intertestemental texts, and these are indeed complete translations. Vermes has also included an overview of five decades of research on the scrolls and a thumbnail sketch of the Qumran community's history and religion. For anyone interested in biblical history, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English is a worthwhile read.

Einaudi

I vangeli apocrifi sono una delle testimonianze più vive del cristianesimo primitivo. Qui i primi cristiani riversarono tutto il loro ingenuo bisogno di conoscere del proprio Salvatore e Maestro quanto i quattro Vangeli canonici non dissero. Così l'infanzia di Gesù nella casa di Nazareth, dopo i prodigi della sua nascita, o i misteri che accompagnarono e seguirono la sua morte vennero elaborati da una fantasia ricca di tutta la tradizione orientale ed ellenistica, con la freschezza di un mondo nuovo che stava sorgendo sulla decadenza dell'antico. Le letteratura popolare di tutti i tempi trova fra questi testi molte delle sue pagine migliori. All'edizione curata da Marcello Craveri nei "Millenni" si aggiunge una nuova prefazione di Dario Fo.

A. N. Wilson
Biographies & Memoirs
W.W. Norton & Co.
3.0 (48 voti)
A.N. Wilson, who has written revisionist biographies of Jesus, Tolstoy, and C.S. Lewis, trains his critical eye on the first self-identified Christian writer in "Paul: The Mind of the Apostle". Wilson's book may purport to be a biography of Paul, but it is really an argument about the origin and nature of Christianity. His premise is that "Jesus was a devoted Jew who did not seek to found a new religion, but to call his followers to a stricter observance of Judaism." It was Paul, not Jesus, who exemplified the central tensions of Christianity. ("Jewish or non-Jewish? Roman or anti-Roman? Apocalyptic or practical?") And according to Wilson, it was Paul who first claimed Jesus' divinity and called Jesus the messiah. Wilson's argument, though heterodox, is no hatchet-job. Paul may be "widely regarded as someone who distorted the original message of Christianity, by adding 'theology' to the supposedly simple message of love Jesus preached," but Wilson sees Paul as "a prophet of liberty, whose visionary sense of the importance of the inner life anticipates the Romantic poets more than the rule-books of the Inquisition." Wilson concludes that Christianity is "an institutionalised distortion of Paul's thought, the inevitable consequence of the world having lasted ... more than nineteen hundred years longer than he predicted." Wilson's prose is just this lively and provocative throughout, and his observations are always skeptical and forgiving: "Paul did not imagine that there would be such a thing as Christianity, or Christian civilization, any more than Jesus did." "--Michael Joseph Gross"

Alfred Loisy Gérard Mordillat Jérôme Prieur
Subjects
Editions NOESIS

Alvar Ellegård

Overlook

Augias Corrado

Mondadori

Su Gesù sono proliferate nei secoli molte leggende e alcune autentiche fiabe, segno della curiosità di sapere chi lui fosse veramente prima che il mantello della teologia lo coprisse, celandone allo sguardo la figura storica. Corrado Augias ha dialogato su questo tema con uno dei massimi biblisti italiani, Mauro Pesce, rivolgendogli quelle stesse domande che molti di noi, cristiani e non cristiani, si pongono: sul periodo storico nel quale Gesù visse, sulle sue parole, sulla sua vita, sulla sua morte, sui tanti testi che ne parlano. Ma anche su ciò che seguì la tragica giornata del Golgota, fino alla nascita di una religione che da lui prese il nome, anche se egli non ha mai detto di volerla fondare. Il profilo di Gesù che questa "inchiesta" ci restituisce è quello di un ebreo, ligio alla Legge di Mosè, amante del suo popolo e delle sue tradizioni, eppure aspramente critico verso gli aspetti che giudicava 'superati' o 'secondari', e, soprattutto, portatore di un progetto di rinnovamento incentrato sul riscatto degli emarginati; una personalità complessa, mai svelata per intero nemmeno a chi gli era più vicino, una figura profondamente solitaria, coerente con i suoi principi fino alla morte in croce.

Augias Corrado

Mondadori

Che cosa è accaduto dopo la morte di Gesù e com'è nata la religione che da lui ha preso il nome? Fino a che punto gli storici, esaminando fatti e testi e prescindendo da ogni considerazione di fede, possono ricostruire gli avvenimenti che hanno trasformato quel profeta umiliato, ucciso su un patibolo romano, nel fondatore di una delle più grandi religioni? Gesù non ha mai detto di voler fondare una Chiesa che portasse il suo nome, né di dover morire per sanare con il suo sangue il peccato di Adamo ed Eva, ristabilendo l'alleanza tra Dio e gli uomini. Non ha mai detto di essere nato da una vergine che lo aveva concepito per intervento di un dio. Da dove viene allora tutto il complesso apparato di norme, cariche, vestimenti, liturgie, formule, che caratterizza la Chiesa che a lui si richiama? Corrado Augias si confronta e dialoga sulla storia del cristianesimo delle origini con lo studioso Remo Cacitti. Una complessa avventura umana che ha il suo punto di svolta nella figura dell'imperatore Costantino, il primo a trasformare il cristianesimo in uno strumento di potere, opera che sarà poi completata, al termine del IV secolo, da un altro imperatore, Teodosio, che lo renderà religione imperiale. Grazie a questa documentata ricostruzione si giunge a comprendere perché la fede cristiana, che inizialmente era soltanto una corrente minoritaria del giudaismo, sia riuscita a sopravvivere per oltre venti secoli e a imporsi come una delle religioni più diffuse sull'intero pianeta.

Bart D. Ehrman
Religion & Spirituality
HarperOne
4.0
In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many "answers" that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers: The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sinThe book of Job, which offers two different answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it; and suffering is beyond comprehension, since we are just human beings and God, after all, is GodEcclesiastes: suffering is the nature of things, so just accept itAll apocalyptic texts in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: God will eventually make right all that is wrong with the world

For renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, the question of why there is so much suffering in the world is more than a haunting thought. Ehrman's inability to reconcile the claims of faith with the facts of real life led the former pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church to reject Christianity.

In God's Problem, Ehrman discusses his personal anguish upon discovering the Bible's contradictory explanations for suffering and invites all people of faith—or no faith—to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us.

Bart D. Ehrman
Religion & Spirituality
HarperCollins e-books
4.0 (117 voti)
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's "New York Times" bestseller "Misquoting Jesus" left off, "Jesus, Interrupted" addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—and it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works
The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later
Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions
Established Christian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity—were the inventions of still later theologians
These are not idiosyncratic perspectives of just one modern scholar. As Ehrman skillfully demonstrates, they have been the standard and widespread views of critical scholars across a full spectrum of denominations and traditions. Why is it most people have never heard such things? This is the book that pastors, educators, and anyone interested in the Bible have been waiting for—a clear and compelling account of the central challenges we face when attempting to reconstruct the life and message of Jesus.

Bart D. Ehrman
Religion & Spirituality
Oxford University Press, USA
4.0 (35 voti)
Featuring vibrant full color throughout, this new edition of Bart Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Rather than shying away from the critical problems presented by these books, Ehrman addresses the historical and literary challenges they pose, showing why scholars continue to argue over such significant issues as how the books of the New Testament came into being, when they were written (and by whom), what they mean, how they relate to contemporary Christian and non-Christian literature, and how they came to be collected into the canon of scripture that we now call the New Testament. Distinctive to this study is its unique focus on the historical, literary, and religious milieux of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism. As part of its historical orientation, the book also discusses works by other Christian writers who were roughly contemporary with the New Testament, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the letters of Ignatius. The text is enhanced by maps, timelines, an extensive text box program, and more than one hundred photos. An accompanying Instructor's Manual contains chapter summaries, discussion questions, and a test bank. An updated Website Study Guide provides chapter summaries, glossary terms, and self-quizzes for students.
New to this edition:
* Coverage of new discoveries--including the Gospel of Judas Iscariot--and of recent advances in scholarship
* A revised discussion of the history of Palestine and Judaism, which now appears much earlier in the book (Chapter 3), thereby providing students with more background on the development of early Christianity at the outset of their studies
* A new photo essay on important Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, ten new text boxes, a revised epilogue, and updated suggestions for further reading
* An expanded glossary featuring more than 200 key terms, which are also listed at the end of each chapter in which they appear
* Key terms appear in boldface type the first time they are used in each chapter
* Vivid full color throughout
Ideal for undergraduate and seminary classes in the New Testament, Biblical Studies, and Christian Origins, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, Fourth Edition, encourages students to carefully consider the historical issues surrounding these writings.

Benedetto XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)

Rizzoli

"Ho voluto fare il tentativo di presentare il Gesù dei Vangeli come il Gesù reale, come il "Gesù storico" in senso vero e proprio. Io sono convinto che questa figura è molto più logica e dal punto di vista storico anche più comprensibile delle ricostruzioni con le quali ci siamo dovuti confrontare negli ultimi decenni. Io ritengo che proprio questo Gesù - quello dei Vangeli - sia una figura storicamente sensata e convincente. Solo se era successo qualcosa di straordinario, se la figura e le parole di Gesù avevano superato tutte le speranze e le aspettative dell'epoca, si spiega la sua crocifissione e si spiega la sua efficacia. Già circa vent'anni dopo la morte di Gesù troviamo pienamente dispiegata nel grande inno a Cristo della Lettera ai Filippesi (2,6-11) una cristologia, in cui si dice che Gesù era uguale a Dio ma spogliò se stesso, si fece uomo, si umiliò fino alla morte sulla croce e che a Lui spetta l'omaggio del creato, l'adorazione che nel profeta Isaia (45,23) Dio aveva proclamata come dovuta a Lui solo. La ricerca critica si pone a buon diritto la domanda: che cosa è successo in questi vent'anni dalla crocifissione di Gesù? Come si è giunti a questa cristologia? Come mai dei raggruppamenti sconosciuti poterono essere così creativi, convincere e in tal modo imporsi? Non è più logico che la grandezza si collochi all'inizio e che la figura di Gesù abbia fatto saltare tutte le categorie disponibili e abbia potuto così essere compresa solo a partire dal mistero di Dio?"

Bernheim Pierre-Antoine

ECIG

Un'indagine per tracciare il profilo di un personaggio troppo a lungo ignorato, simbolo autorevole - ancor più di Pietro - di una Chiesa primitiva, fortemente ancorata al giudaismo del suo tempo. Un'inedita visione degli albori della Chiesa, non di quella dell'ortodossia che più tardi trionferà, ma di quella - inizialmente dominante - di coloro che non andavano nel senso della Storia. Giacomo si oppose a Paolo, le cui idee trionfarono e portarono inevitabilmente alla separazione del cristianesimo dal giudaismo.

Brian B. Schmidt
History
Society of Biblical Literature
5.0 (6 voti)
Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible over the question of the relevance of the biblical account for reconstructing early Israels history have created the need for a balanced articulation of the issues and their prospective resolutions. This book brings together for the first time and under one cover, a currently emerging centrist paradigm as articulated by two leading figures in the fields of early Israelite archaeology and history. Although Finkelstein and Mazar advocate distinct views of early Israels history, they nevertheless share the position that the material cultural data, the biblical traditions, and the ancient Near Eastern written sources are all significantly relevant to the historical quest for Iron Age Israel. The results of their research are featured in accessible, parallel syntheses of the historical reconstruction of early Israel that facilitate comparison and contrast of their respective interpretations. The historical essays presented here are based on invited lectures delivered in October of 2005 at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan.

Burton L. Mack
Religion & Spirituality
Continuum International Publishing Group
4.0
This book traces Burton Mack's intellectual evolution, from a creative analyst of ancient texts, to a scholar searching for the motives and interests of Jesus's followers who composed those texts, and for the social logic of "the Christian myths" they created.

Mack rejects depictions of Jesus that have emerged from the quest for the "historical Jesus"--peasant teacher, revolutionary leader, mystical visionary or miracle-working prophet--on the grounds that they are based on a priori assumptions about Jesus, and are therefore contradictory. In addition, he argues, these portrayals are untrue to the many images of Jesus produced by the early Christians. Using systematic analysis, Mack seeks to describe and understand the cultural and anthropological influences on the conception and adoption of Christian myths and rituals.

Burton L. Mack
Religion & Spirituality
HarperOne
3.5
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.

Burton L. Mack
Literature & Fiction
HarperOne
3.5 (57 voti)
In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Mack's innovative scholarship'which boldly challenges traditional Christian understanding'will change the way you approach the New Testament and think about how Christianity arose.

Charles Guignebert
All French Books
Albin Michel

COLLECTIF
Cultures et religions
GALLIMARD (ÉDITIONS)

Dan Barker
Biographies & Memoirs
Ulysses Press
4.5
After 19 years as an evangelical preacher, missionary, and Christian songwriter, Dan Barker 'threw out the bathwater and discovered there is no baby there.' Barker, who is now co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (America's largest organization of atheists and agnostics), describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. The four sections in Godless--Rejecting God, Why I Am An Atheist, What's Wrong With Christianity, and Life is Good!--include chapters on bible problems, the historicity of Jesus, morality, the Kalam Cosmological argument, the unbelievable resurrection, and much more. Barker relates the positive benefits from trusting in reason and human kindness instead of living in fear of false judgment and moral condemnation. Godless expands the story told in Dan's 1992 book, Losing Faith in Faith--the two books overlap about 20%--but a lot has happened in 16 years, and Dan updates the story with four new chapters, including 'The New Call' (lessons from the debate circuit), 'Adventures in Atheism,' and 'We Go To Washington' (FFRF's Supreme Court lawsuit, in which Dan was a plaintiff).