Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels

What are the Gospels and what does it mean to read them? Warren Carter leads the beginning student in an inductive exploration of the New Testament Gospels, asking about their genre, the view that they were written by eyewitnesses, the early church traditions about them, and how they employ Hellenistic biography.

He then examines the distinctive voice of each Gospel, describing the tale about Jesus each writer tells, then presenting likely views regarding the circumstances in which they were...