The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
(4th ed.)
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined is George Eliot's translation, published in 1846, of David Friedrich Strauss's Das Leben Jesu, the book that in 1835 ended its young author's academic career and changed the study of the Gospels. Strauss goes through the narratives episode by episode, from the birth stories to the resurrection, and argues that much of what they report is neither history nor deliberate fraud but myth, the natural expression of the early community's faith in the Messiah. The introduction surveys earlier attempts to read the Gospels and sets out his method. This edition reproduces the fourth German edition, with an introduction by Otto Pfleiderer on the book's place in the history of theology. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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