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Dethroning Jesus Exposing Popular Culture's Quest to Unseat the Biblical Christ

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ISBN-10: 078522615X

ISBN-13: 9780785226154

Edition: 2007

Authors: Darrell L. Bock, Daniel B. Wallace

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New York Times best-selling author Darrell Bock teams with Daniel Wallace to help lay readers separate fact from fiction and help from hype in the recent best-selling Jesus books and television specials. #xD; There is a quest going on. It's the quest to reduce Jesus to a mythic legend or to nothing more than a mere man. Scholars such as Elaine Pagels and James Tabor are using such recent discoveries as the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas to argue that the Christ of Christianity is a contrived figure and that a different Christ-one human and not divine-is the "true" Christ. #xD; In his trademark easy-to-understand style Darrell Bock takes on these attempts to redefine Jesus in a…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 11/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Darrell L. Bock (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. Known for his work in Luke-Acts, Dr. Bock is a Humboldt Scholar (Tubingen University in Germany), an editor-at-large for Christianity Today , and a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001). A New York Times bestselling author, Bock has written over thirty books, including Luke in the NIV Application Commentary series.

Daniel Wallace was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Emory University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying English and philosophy. He is best known as the author of the 1998 novel, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. This novel became the basis for Tim Burton's film, Big Fish. Wallace currently is a professor and lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.