دانلود کتاب The Birthing of the New Testament: The Intertextual Development of the New Testament Writings

From the book's back cover:Many are saying that the prevailing paradigm of New Testament origins is going nowhere. In its place, Brodie's stunning book invites us to suspend all 'knowledge' we already have about the history of the New Testament's development, and to be willing to entertain the following thesis. Everything hinges on Proto-Luke, a history of Jesus using the Elijah-Elisha narrative as its model, which survives in 10 chapters of Luke and 15 of Acts. Mark then uses Proto-Luke, transposing its Acts material back into the life of Jesus. Matthew deuteronomizes Mark, John improves on the discourses of Matthew. Luke-Acts spells out the story at length. Add the Pauline corpus, the descendant of Deuteronomy via the Matthean logia, and the New Testament is virtually complete. This is a totalizing theory, an explanation of everything, and its critics will be numerous. But even they will be hugely intrigued, and have to admit that Brodie's myriads of challenging observations about literary affinities demand an answer.---------------------A work of stunning research…a book that any serious researcher of the literary origins of the New Testament will need to take into account. Seamus O’Connell, The Furrow.Brodie’s hypothetical reconstruction of a Proto-Luke and the development of his argument in this regard certainly deserve attention and discussion. Gert J. Steyn, University of Pretoria.An original work that will make a lasting impact on the study of Christian origins. David Noel Freedman, University of San Diego.One cannot but admire the diligence with which Brodie combs the biblical writings, his intimate knowledge of them, and his familiarity with Jewish and Greco-Roman sources pertinent to New Testament study … Even if one remains unconvinced by the overall thesis of the volume, one can certainly learn much from it. In particular, chapters 1-9, setting out the case for the contribution of the Old Testament to the New, are particularly valuable.Margaret Daly-Denton, Review of Biblical LiteratureCustomer Review:This is a landmark book in biblical studies, not so much because of its Proto-Luke hypothesis as because of its first 9 chapters that present and justify the author's methodology. These chapters are clearly and effectively argued, and they are extremely important because they undermine key parts of the paradigm subscribed to by most biblical scholars. Much of this has been argued elsewhere of course, but this is to my knowledge the most comprehensive and effectively argued attack on the idea of oral tradition that has yet been published anywhere, and it should be read by anyone who is inclined to take that idea seriously.These nine chapters offer an account of the incredible variety of ways that people in the ancient world created new works of literature by copying old ones; they refute the idea that the Old Testament or New Testament were unique exceptions to this pattern; they create and defend a series of criteria that scholars can use to determine when one literary work is dependent on another; they provide a brief history explaining how the process of creating literary works worked in the ancient world; they refute the idea that the New Testament authors could have been so isolated that each could somehow write in complete ignorance of the others' works; and they reach a well-substantiated conclusion that much of the New Testament - even including the epistles of Paul -- was produced by a single far-flung community rather than by isolated individuals.The remainder of the book presents Brodie's application of his methodology at some length, including his Proto-Luke hypothesis. I personally found this rather more of a mixed bag than the first nine chapters. In particular, Proto-Luke seems little different from Q or oral tradition insofar as it amounts to an attempt to explain by appealing to an unknown quantity for which there is actually no hard evidence. Nevertheless, this does not reflect negatively at all on Brodie's presentation of his methodology. The very fact of "authorial complexity" which he so forcefully defends in the first part of the book means that no criteria no matter how well thought out and applied will reliably tip the hand of an author who was not inclined to tip his hand.The book is very long and is written largely by a scholar for scholars; nevertheless I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about the foundations of biblical scholarship, especially with regard to the Gospels or attempts to find "the historical Jesus." At the very least, read the first nine chapters. Those chapters alone are worth the cost of the book. Regardless of whether you agree with everything you read there, when you're done you will be less inclined to blindly accept statements by other biblical scholars that are presented as fact, but are actually highly questionable.Customer Review:Thomas Brodie, one of the most thorough and finest Catholic scholars I have ever read, in his magnificent book of memoirs he wrote at age 70, "Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus, Memoir of a Personal Discovery," recounts his education in Catholicism, his restlessness for knowledge, his education, his high standards for excellent in finding historical truth, came out in 2012 with the admission that literary and historical evidence show Jesus was an invention. The evidence is solid... rock solid. The stories of him in the New Testament never happened, and aren't real so far as there actually having been a man who actually went through the experiences the New Testament relates about him. Brodie is no amateur atheist with an anger button being pushed, but a seasoned, intelligent veteran of biblical scholarship and analysis. This 240 page book is one of the finest I have read in this last year. His magnum opus "The Birthing of the New Testament" is the most detail exegesis of the influence of the Old Testament on the New Testament authors using to create their stories of faith anywhere in print. True, the atheists such as Richard Carrier (by far my favorite to date), Robert Price (2 Ph.d's in New Testament subjects), David Fitzgerald, John W. Loftus, Earl Doherty, Hector Avalos (Ph.d in Biblical Studies), David Eller, Michael Martin, and a host of others have been demonstrating with solid evidence and probability that It's likely Jesus didn't exist, but Brodie is a bonafide religious man. He is a seriously informed, well read, and long time Catholic teacher and scholar. And after decades of learning the evidence, the ins and outs, he has concluded his religion is wrong, and the history of Jesus is invented. In order to actually get the impact, I highly recommend reading his memoir. Not only well written, but succinct, yet detailed, stunningly informative, scary, amusing, literally everything a memoir ought to be. Try it, you'll like it! His books sell on Amazon.---------------------About the AuthorThomas L. Brodie, Irish Roman Catholic priest within the Dominican Order and former director of the Dominican Biblical Institute in Limerick, Ireland, has taught Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament in various institutions across the U.S. and in South Africa. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the Scriptures.His 2012 book Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery caused controversy when Brodie endorsed the Christ myth theory and expressed that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical figure, a belief he reports he has held since the 1970s.The Provincial set up a committee of five experts from within the Province to examine the work under dispute. After providing Tom Brodie with written copies of their assessments of Beyond the Quest, and having received a written response from him, the committee spent a morning discussing the work with him.Following on these deliberations the committee advised that they judged Beyond the Quest to be ‘imprudent and dangerous’ (a phrase from the Order’s own legislation). Accepting this assessment, the Provincial continued the sanctions on Tom Brodie – that he withdraw fully from ministry and from all forms of teaching, writing, or making public statements.Despite the restrictions placed on him, Tom Brodie remains a brother of the Irish Province, and the Province continues to care for him and provide for him. From the point of view of the Order, the matter is closed.