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Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels
Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? 'Simulating Jesus' argues that the gospels do not represent four versions of one Jesus story but rather four distinct narrative simulacra, each of which is named "Jesus". The book explores the theory and evidence justifying this claim and discusses its practical and theological consequences. The simulations of Jesus in each of the gospels are analysed and placed alongside Jesus simulacra elsewhere in the Bible and contemporary popular culture. 'Simulating Jesus' offers a radical understanding of Scripture that will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies.
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Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels
Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? 'Simulating Jesus' argues that the gospels do not represent four versions of one Jesus story but rather four distinct narrative simulacra, each of which is named "Jesus". The book explores the theory and evidence justifying this claim and discusses its practical and theological consequences. The simulations of Jesus in each of the gospels are analysed and placed alongside Jesus simulacra elsewhere in the Bible and contemporary popular culture. 'Simulating Jesus' offers a radical understanding of Scripture that will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies.
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Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels

Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels

by George Aichele
Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels
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Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels

Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels

by George Aichele

Overview

Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? 'Simulating Jesus' argues that the gospels do not represent four versions of one Jesus story but rather four distinct narrative simulacra, each of which is named "Jesus". The book explores the theory and evidence justifying this claim and discusses its practical and theological consequences. The simulations of Jesus in each of the gospels are analysed and placed alongside Jesus simulacra elsewhere in the Bible and contemporary popular culture. 'Simulating Jesus' offers a radical understanding of Scripture that will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845536800
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/07/2011
Series: BibleWorld Series
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

George Aichele is Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Adrian College, Michigan (retired).

Table of Contents

Preface Part One: Virtual Bible, Virtual Gospel Chapter One: Virtuality and the Bible Chapter Two: The Simulation of Jesus, and the Virtual Gospel Part Two: Four Jesuses Chapter Three: Matthew's Gospel According to Pasolini Chapter Four: Child and Kingdom: On Some Unsettling Language in the Gospel of Mark Chapter Five: Dark Conception: The Two Fathers of Luke's Jesus Chapter Six: John Simulates the Anti-Simulacrum: Reading Jesus Writing Part Three: Canonical Reality Effects Chapter Seven: The Possibility of Error: Minority Report and the Synoptic Gospels Chapter Eight: Fantasy and the Synoptic Problem: The 'Minor Agreements' of Matthew and Luke against Mark Chapter Nine: Luke and John, and the Simulation of Christ Chapter Ten: The Virtual Gospel and the Canonical Control of Meaning
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