God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Moss, Candida

God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and...
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Author: Candida Moss
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God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Moss, Candida

God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

¥6,820

God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

¥6,820
Author: Candida Moss
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From an award-winning biblical scholar, 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 the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of 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 cluster of enslaved coauthors and collaborators. Although they almost all go unnamed and uncredited, these essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament: making the parchment and papyri on which Christian texts were written, taking dictation, and polishing and refining the words of the apostles. When the Christian message began to move independently from the first apostles, it was enslaved missionaries who undertook the dangerous and arduous journeys across the Mediterranean and along dusty Roman roads to move Christianity from Jerusalem and the Levant to Rome, Spain, North Africa, and Egypt--and into the pages of history. The influence of these enslaved contributors 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 both for what it means to be a Christian and for how we read individual 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.

Author: Candida Moss
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316564670


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 20

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