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Klappentext The 1868 translation of the fourth German edition of this polemical work by the pioneering but controversial biblical textual scholar. Zusammenfassung The learned, pioneering, but controversial German biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–74) published the first edition of this book in 1865; this 1868 translation is of the expanded 1866 fourth edition. Tischendorf here argues, highly polemically, that the gospel texts were established by the end of the first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's preface; Author's preface; 1. The Gospels our sources for the life of Jesus; 2. Importance of the historical witnesses for the Gospels; 3. Evidence from the last decades of the second century; 4. Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clemens of Alexandria, the canon of Muratori, the oldest Latin and Syriac translation; 5. Shortly before Irenaeus; 6. First and fourth quarters of the second century; 7. Justin and the Epistle to Diognetus; 8. The Gospel of the Hebrews; 9. The literature of heresy before and in the middle of the second century; 10. Marcion; 11. Montanism and the Alogians; 12. Celsus vs. Christianity; 13. The New Testament apocryphal literature; 14. The pseudo-Clementines; 15. Barnabas; 16. When and how to come to a decision regarding the four Gospels; 17. The testimony of Papias; 18. New Testament criticism; 19. Its evidence as to a lost form of Matthew and Mark; 20. The text of the second century presupposes a full history of the canon, and gives evidence of its existence at about the close of the first century; 21. Evidence omitted; 22. Misunderstandings and hypotheses regarding the Gospel of John; 23. Concluding remarks.
