Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

Craig A. Evans

Aug 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Shea Taylor

About this audiobook

Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring-just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media. Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions predispose scholars to distort the record? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus? Commenting on such recent releases as Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, James Tabor's The Jesus Dynasty, Michael Baigent's The Jesus Papers and the Gospel of Judas, for which he served as an advisory board member to the National Geographic Society, Craig Evans offers a sane approach to examining the sources for understanding the historical Jesus.

About the author

Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and has written extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. He has appeared frequently as an expert commentator on network television programs.

Shea Taylor is an actor and author with a background in musical theater, English literature, and songwriting. He is the narrator of more than 100 audiobooks and the recipient of an AudioFile Earphones Award. He also moonlights as an audiobook director/engineer.