Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? Summary and Reviews

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?
by Robert M. Price

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?
List Price: $27.98
Our Price: $14.78
You Save: $13.20 (47%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $14.35 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


or

Book Summary Information

Author: Robert M. Price
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12
ISBN: 1591021219
Number of pages: 389
Publisher: Prometheus Books

Book Reviews of Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?

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.

Religion & Spirituality Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Jesus
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2) ImageJesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2)
by N. T. Wright
Augsburg Fortress Publishers; Published: 1997-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.47
Price in other shops: $41.00
Jesus Remembered (Christianity in the Making, Vol. 1) ImageJesus Remembered (Christianity in the Making, Vol. 1)
by James D. G. Dunn
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Published: 2003-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $33.80
Price in other shops: $58.00
Jesus Is Dead ImageJesus Is Dead
by Robert M. Price
American Atheist Press; Published: 2007-04-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.00
Deconstructing Jesus ImageDeconstructing Jesus
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books; Published: 2000-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.89
Price in other shops: $34.98
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? ImageIncredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books; Published: 2003-12; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $16.88
Price in other shops: $27.98
Jesus: According to the Earliest Witness ImageJesus: According to the Earliest Witness
by James M. Robinson
Fortress Press; Published: 2007-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.74
Price in other shops: $21.00
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium ImageJesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
by Bart D. Ehrman
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2001-05-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.08
Price in other shops: $19.99
Intolerance And the Gospel: Selected Texts from the New Testament ImageIntolerance And the Gospel: Selected Texts from the New Testament
by Gerd Ludemann
Prometheus Books; Published: 2006-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.00
Price in other shops: $29.98
The Acts of Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do? ImageThe Acts of Jesus: What Did Jesus Really Do?
by Robert Walter Funk, The Jesus Seminar
Polebridge Press; Published: 1998-04-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $29.95
Price in other shops: $35.00
The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus ImageThe Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus
by Robert W. Funk
HarperOne; Published: 1997-01-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.91
Price in other shops: $28.00
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Sense & Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism ImageSense & Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
by Richard Carrier
AuthorHouse; Published: 2005-02-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.93
Price in other shops: $25.45
Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind ImagePaperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books; Published: 2007-12-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.93
Price in other shops: $18.98
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists ImageGodless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by Dan Barker
Ulysses Press; Published: 2008-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.51
Price in other shops: $14.95
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore ImageHoly Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
by Alan Dundes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Published: 1999-02-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.82
Price in other shops: $21.95
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) ImageJesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
by Bart D. Ehrman
HarperOne; Published: 2009-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.03
Price in other shops: $25.99
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism ImageAtheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
by David Mills
Ulysses Press; Published: 2006-08-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops: $14.95
Deconstructing Jesus ImageDeconstructing Jesus
by Robert M. Price
Prometheus Books; Published: 2000-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.25
Price in other shops: $34.98
Jesus Is Dead ImageJesus Is Dead
by Robert M. Price
American Atheist Press; Published: 2007-04-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.00
The God Who Wasn't There ImageThe God Who Wasn't There
Release date: 2005-08-23; Published: 2005-06-06; DVD
Best price: $16.99
Price in other shops: $24.94
The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus ImageThe Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus
by Earl Doherty
Age of Reason Publications; Published: 2005-01-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.77
Price in other shops: $22.95