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God’s Ghostwriters
- Author
- Candida Moss
- Narrator
- Elliot Chapman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 26 March 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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The untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.
For two thousand years, Christian tradition has credited the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a huge number of enslaved co-authors and collaborators. Their influence on the spread of Christianity, the development of foundational Christian concepts and the making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now.
Filled with profound revelations for reading and understanding the texts themselves, God’s Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity. It’s also an intimate portrait of lives not often considered by history, and a reckoning with the motives and methods of the early Christians as they spread their message across the known world.
Critics Review
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‘Refreshingly readable … Definitely one to ponder the next time someone tries to tell us what they are saying is the “gospel truth”’ Guardian
‘A tour de force that will be a revelation to many… An intellectual triumph – it encourages us to think of the New Testament in particular, and early Christian writing in general, in provocatively exciting new ways’ Irish Independent
‘[Moss’s] massive achievement is to shift the paradigm and tell the early Christian story from the perspective of the enslaved’ Spectator
‘Professor Moss has bitten the bullet and attempted the impossible: to delineate the invisible … The primary area of the author’s study is the New Testament, but vivid investigations of subsequent developments follow, each neatly woven round one prominent core: the development of the text itself’ Church Times
‘Moss’ blending of sacred and secular sources significantly reimagines the writing and reading of the New Testament… Gives voice and dignity to enslaved contributors to the New Testament’ The Critic
‘A book to put an exegetical cat among nervous scholarly pigeons … Therefore very interesting; it may well mean that many of the problems of New Testament scholarship are not as easily solved as we had supposed’ The Tablet
‘Erudite … Students of Christian history will find plenty to appreciate in this innovative reinterpretation’ Publishers Weekly
‘Lucid, convincing, and deceptively transgressive’ Rev. Jarel Robinson-Brown, author of Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer
‘At once eminently readable and rigorously researched, God’s Ghostwriters cements Candida Moss as the most compelling voice in Biblical scholarship. The role of enslaved people in the writing and dissemination of the gospels has been ignored for far too long' Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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Details
- Author
- Candida Moss
- Narrator
- Elliot Chapman
- Duration
- 8 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 March 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008612207
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- History of the Americas, Slavery and abolition of slavery, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: historical, political and military, Historiography, Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings, History of religion
Synopsis
The untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.For two thousand years, Christian tradition has credited the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a huge number of enslaved co-authors and collaborators. Their influence on the spread of Christianity, the development of foundational Christian concepts and the making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now.Filled with profound revelations for reading and understanding the texts themselves, God’s Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity. It’s also an intimate portrait of lives not often considered by history, and a reckoning with the motives and methods of the early Christians as they spread their message across the known world.
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