Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?
by Robert M. Price
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Author: Robert M. PriceEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12
ISBN: 1591021219
Number of pages: 389
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Book Review: First-rate writing and thinking
Summary: 5 Stars
Very readable. Filled with information. Lots of details. Lots of speculation on the individual details. The title may seem flip but the contents aren't at all.
Price stands out: he seems to be in the top 1% of thinkers and writers. He seems open-minded, going carefully thru a lot of information, following thru on various hypotheses rather than just following those he might be attached to. He reserves concluding until the conclusion, first gathering over 300 pages of input. Even then, the book's conclusion is only 6 pages long: nothing heavy-handed, seemingly just another hypothesis to consider. But after all the details of the main text, that final hypothesis pulls the book together tightly and brings full weight to the inquiry Price has been sharing with you.
Price seems not to claim things he can't claim. He doesn't play the authoritative expert. But in his openness and thoroughness, he delivers not just a powerful conclusion but a powerful process. Here's a model that other scholars (more apt to make hasty claims based on their "superiority") would do well to follow. Finish this book and you won't have been sold an answer, but rather stimulated to seek out more yourself about Jesus and the New Testament.
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