Behind the Gospels

This pamphlet is an attempt to appraise certain aspects of the current study of the Gospels. That study digests the effects of insights on gospel origin which emerged from the trend called in English “form criticism.”

Formgeschichte, as it was originally called, developed in Germany more than forty years ago where students of the gospels came to realize that between the original events of the career of Jesus and the individual authors of the four familiar books, there had been an interim pr...