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And I thoroughly enjoyed this book examining the Gospels and how the Story of Jesus was preserved and past on Bird does a fine job of examining the Synoptic Problem and how John fits into everything though personally I think John is historical then it is given credit for so this area alone makes for a worthwhile read However we also have a good coverage of oral vs written transmission that argues well for a both and approach to an either or approach in the early church He also does quite a good introduction into the Other Gospels showing not only their deficiencies but also their value this added to by a good coverage of 2nd Century Christian writers. The gospel of the lord response catholic So I will definitely be seeking our books by this fellow Aussie New Testament.

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How these accounts further shaped the early church Bird s study clarifies the often confusing debates over the origins of the canonical Gospels Bird navigates recent concerns and research as he builds an informed case for how the early Christ followers wrote and spread the story of Jesus the story by which they believed they were called to live The Gospel of the Lord is ideal for students or anyone who wants to know the story behind the four Gospels Watch an interview with Michael Bird from our Eerdmans Author Interview Series The Gospel of the Lord How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus.

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Found this to be first rate scholarship into the origins of the gospels and various scholarly views on the subject It can be a bit laborious in places but the research is thorough and it is informative at understanding the climate in the early centuries of the Christian era from which the four gospels were produced New Testament Systematic Theology This book was a lot deeper than I thought but it still gave me a much deeper appreciation for understanding what the Gospel accounts are and how they came to be what they are within the scripture Plenty to chew on and overall helped me to trust in the message even New Testament Systematic Theology Thorough examination of what exactly the Gospels are how they came to be written and why THESE four Gospels Can be dense and this isn t for beginners really But Bird is an engaging and witty writer and it comes out even in a work like this Really enjoyed this book New Testament Systematic Theology I guarantee you need to read this Amazingly well written for a such a technical and detailed academic work New Testament Systematic Theology Where did the gospels in our Bible come from When were they written and by whom Why do we have four What is a gospel anyway In this scholarly and fascinating book Michael Bird explores these questions tracing the early oral traditions about Jesus from their origins to their embodiment in written form This subject matter is rife with conjecture and speculation but I appreciate Bird s levelheaded approach As he engages with the myriad of theories that have been posited throughout church history he establishes conclusions only for which we have tangible evidence This is a serious and intensely researched academic work But Bird writes with enthusiasm and it is evident that he is even having fun as demonstrated by the humorous illustrations and pop culture references peppered throughout the book I never would have thought to compare the early Jesus tradition to the YouTube sensation Gangnam Style He seems like the kind of person I would enjoy sitting under in a classroom. The Gospel of the Lord kindle Bird argues that our four gospels emerged as biographical accounts of Jesus as a historical figure set over the backdrop of Israel s religious history but with great significance for us today He says When it comes to reading the Gospels as a church community we are not just mining for nuggets of devotional wisdom Rather we are striving to let the story of Jesus gradually shape our lives enrich our worship inspire us to mission draw our community together and impact our ministries so that the evangelical vision of Jesus given to us in the Gospels becomes an evangelical project to make the story of Jesus known in all the world Amen New Testament Systematic Theology Dr Michael Bird Ph. What is the bible all about pdf D University of Queensland is Lecturer in Theology at Ridley Melbourne College of Mission and Ministry He is the author of several books including Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission 2006 The Saving Righteousness of God 2007 A Bird s Eye View of Paul 2008 Colossians and Philemon 2009 Crossing Over Sea and Land Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period 2009 and Are You the One Who is to Come The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question 2009 Michael Bird s The Gospel of the Lord is a critical investigation into the origins of the New Testament Gospels Unlike Gospels surveys Bird does not treat the typical issues of prolegomena but focuses on the the origins and development of the books we call Gospels in the context of the early church Gospel ix The first three chapters focus on the Jesus tradition the pre literary forms of the gospels their purpose preservation and formation The fourth and fifth chapters are dedicated to the Synoptic problem and its relationship to the Gospel of John and the genre of the Gospels The sixth and final chapter addresses the fourfold Gospel Why four Gospels and why these four Gospels Each chapter ends with a relevant excursus some of which could be chapters in their own right Bird approaches his task of historical reconstruction with humility At the end of the day most of what is said about the formation of the Jesus tradition is based on a priori assumptions circumstantial evidence inference hypothesis analogy conjecture and sheer guesswork We will never arrive at a foolproof theory of how the Jesus tradition was handled and developed into the canonical Gospels but the exercise remains necessary as a prolegomena to historical Jesus research Gospel 66 67 Chapter one is the introduction From Jesus to Gospels which defines and lays the foundation for the rest of the book The chapter itself is only five pages long but its 15 page long excursus From Oral Gospel to Written Gospel does the heavy lifting for the chapter Arguing against the consensus Bird believes the the origin of the New Testament use of euangelion is not the imperial cult but is located instead in the Old Testament book of Psalms and especially Isaiah He concedes that the New Testament may parody or even critique the imperial cult but its roots lay in Isaiah s prophetic vision of the glad tidings of the Lord s reign and the end of exile It is worth noting here that Bird dedicates this book to N. The gospel of the lord epub file T Wright saying that reading Jesus and the Victory of God was when he left the Matrix and felt like he was being slapped in the face with a very soggy fish Gospel x Chapter one concludes that the Gospels are biographical expansions of the preached gospels developed into a known literary form for a wide array of purposes including evangelistic didactic and formative Gospels 20 Chapter two asks why the early church would have preserved the Jesus tradition and how would they have been able to do so Why was the Jesus tradition preserved Bird postulates four reasons 1 it provided content to the faith of the church 2 it was the foundation for the praxis of faith 3 it provided the church with a self definition as it emerged from Judaism and 4 Jesus was the movement s founder which itself would generate interest So if the early church had motivation to preserve the Jesus tradition did they have the ability to preserve that memory Bird offers several examples of how the early church could have done this such as interest in Jesus pedagogical and rhetorical devices Aramaic sources even suggesting that the disciples could have had notebooks if Arrian could publish his recording of Epictetus teaching could not Jesus disciples at least recorded some of his sayings Bird gives the most attention in this chapter to his suggestion that eyewitnesses served as authenticators of the Jesus tradition If eyewitnesses lived for several decades after the cross then they could inform shape and even to some extent police the developing oral and written traditions about him Gospel 49 Bird anticipates objections to this suggestion and argues well that the teachers in the early church served as custodians of the Jesus tradition Gospel 63 instead of creators of the Jesus tradition He finally argues that the Jesus tradition was a community possession and not the possession of an exclusive group within the community The excursus following chapter two An Evangelical and Critical Approach to the Gospels is worth the book Bird searches for the harmony between faith and critical scholarship which itself is false dichotomy influenced by those who as Bird describes have their knowledge of Jesus influenced by The Simpsons than with sound historical investigation and those on the other hand who find research in John s chronology as religiously affronting as worshipping a life size golden statue of Barack Obama Gospel 67 68 Instead Bird proposes what he calls believing criticism To understand the substance of Scripture means wrestling with its humanity the human face of God s speech to us in his Word Gospel 68 The Gospels are not timeless myths nor are they brute facts stripped of theological meaning While I think the overall historical reliability of the Gospels is vitally important lest we treat them as religiously laden fiction we should not import anachronistic and modernist criteria of historical reality into our treatment of the Gospels and make it a condition for theological validity Gospel 71 Bird then suggests that we practice believing criticism with a hermeneutic of trust in the Scriptures as well as courage to do the hard work of historical investigation Chapter three examines the formation of the Jesus tradition Bird overviews several models of oral tradition from irretrievably lost fluid flexible free the Jesus Seminar to informally controlled Kenneth Bailey finding fault with all Following James Dunn Bird proposes a social memory model of oral tradition He explains In social memory theory the past is not something that is purely a matter of cognitive store and retrieve function rather past memories are mounted on mental artifacts that are reconstructed in light of the needs of the present Gospel 99 Bird argues that social memory is reliable because 1 Jesus was a life changing figure 2 the memory was controlled by the community and that 3 the memory was repeated in the ministry of Jesus itself as well as in the life of the church The apostles and early disciples were not isolated communities who occasionally recalled something Jesus said Instead they were highly networked communities and were constantly teaching and thus constantly retrieving these memories making it unlikely the early church forgot the sayings and stories of Jesus a couple of decades after he died and then created then from nothing The Gospels intend to narrate a back then story and to evoke the right now significance of one called Jesus Israel s Messiah and the world s rightful Lord Gospel 113 The excursus for chapter three is The Failure of Form Criticism Why do we still need to address form critical theories As Bird puts it like Rome salting Carthage it is still necessary to salt the earth to make sure that nothing ever grows from it again Gospel114 The major weaknesses of form criticism were mirror reading the community s situation into the Gospels assuming that there was a pure form of oral tradition that was corrupted instead of a messy oral tradition that was refined as it was documented the absence of eyewitnesses to authenticate the development of the tradition and the assumption that oral tradition would develop in the same way as written documents Chapter four is The Literary Genetics of the Gospels which summarizes the Synoptic Problem and its relationship to the Gospel of John and not surprisingly is the longest chapter in the book This chapter includes synopses in Greek and English to illustrate the odd relationship between the Synoptics Bird summarizes each major theory Augustinian Griesbach Aramiac Ur Gospel Two Four Source Theory Farrer Theory their main proponents their strengths and their problems Bird himself accepts the priority of Mark and some kind of Q document though he is skeptical of the elaborate reconstructions of Q s tradition history After admitting that none of this is a closed case and the whole endeavor is subjective Bird argues for the Holtzmann Gundry Hypothesis Three Source Theory which is essentially a mediating position between the Four Source Hypothesis and the Farrer Hypothesis He strangely argues for Marcan Priority Matthew and Luke s use of Q and Luke s use of Matthew because the Double Tradition cannot accounted for just with Q nor just with Luke s use of Matthew Thus the Three Source Hypothesis is essentially the Four Source Hypothesis with a toned down Q theory plus Luke s use of Matthew It is entirely plausible if not likely that some other written and oral sources may have been jointly shared by Luke and Matthew The result may be a Q lite Gospel 171 While Bird s proposal is just as subjective as its predecessors it may help advance Synoptic research Following E P Sanders Bird believes the next Synoptic theory accepted will be flexible and complicated than the simple and tidy Two Source Hypothesis One weakness of this chapter is that while Bird cites Mark Goodacre he does not engage him in detail This however reflects the main weakness of the book what Bird achieves in breadth he sometimes must sacrifice in depth Regarding John s relationship to the Synoptics Bird engages with a range of scholarship but ends simply affirms that the Fourth Evangelist had some kind of exposure to the Synoptic tradition and that the Fourth Gospel stems from the testimony of a Judean disciple of Jesus the Beloved Disciple who wrote a Gospel in Ephesus which was later appended with an appendix by his followers Gospel 213 The excursus to this chapter is a collection of patristic quotations on the order of the Gospels from Papias to the Muratorian Fragment Chapter five asks to what literary genre do the Gospels belong and what purpose did they serve On genre Bird follows the work of Richard Burridge arguing that the Gospels are like Greco Roman biography than anything else we know The content of the Gospels is singularly determined by Jewish Christian content while the literary form of the Gospels is a clear subtype of Greco Roman biography Gospel 270 Bird prefers to call the Gospels biographical kerygma Gospel 271 because they were derived presumably from Christian preaching about Jesus and because they are an extension of the Old Testament story of God s salvation of his people This implies that the Gospels should be studied in light of both orality and textuality they should be historically referential and they are all about Jesus not his post resurrection sayings On the purpose of the Gospels Bird follows the work of Richard Bauckham arguing that the Gospels were not written for isolated communities settling internal debates but that they are purposed for a mixture of apologetics instruction social legitimation worship and evangelism Their audiences were most likely an immediate network of co believers and benefactors but they were also written with a view to widespread dissemination among wider circles who shared similar beliefs Gospel 280 The excursus for chapter five asks what should we do with the other gospels Bird proposes that all books and writings pertaining to Jesus should go under the heading Ancient Jesus Literature and that the title Gospel should be restricted for those books and writings that are based on the gospel This would then exclude works like the Gospel of Thomas but include the canonical Gospels perhaps some Jewish Christian Gospels and Gospel harmonies and maybe even the Gospel of Peter Gospel 289 The excursus includes some reasons the other gospels did not make it into the canon Chapter six explores the reasons why there are only four Gospels in the canon as well as why these four Gospels are in the canon He believes that the formation of the fourfold Gospel collection was not due to a top down episcopal imposition but emerged out of the networking of literature among proto orthodox believers in the late first and early second centuries Gospel 321 While Marcion may have been a factor he was only a minor factor The four Gospels were the most popular and persuasive and had the best apostolic connections The second century was the womb for canonical development and what the councils said in the fourth century was a natural outcome from what was said about Christian literature in the second century which gives us not a formal canon but rather a canonical trajectory Gospel 322 23 Regarding why these four Gospels are in the canon Bird argues that the four Gospels exhibit a plurality and unity that both encourages and restricts christological reflection and like the Pentateuch the four Gospels provide a strong impetus to make sure that Christian faith is shaped around Jesus and around his teaching his death and his resurrection Gospel 326 27 As such the Gospels should rightly be considered the canon within the canon because Jesus himself is the epicenter of Christian faith Gospel 328 The final excursus explains how the texts of the Gospels in the second century reveal that no significant changes took place in the textual base but that it was a stable text that was faithfully transmitted I recommend The Gospel of the Lord for students and other interested readers While his book is not groundbreaking in Gospels research it is a fine accessible synopsis of Gospels literature Bird says a lot in a little space and engages an impressive breadth of scholarship He is concise and consistent in his treatment of the literature and his focused yet humorous writing style makes the work all the engaging The wide scope of the book makes it suitable for a Gospels survey class or a critical introduction class Detailed footnotes and a 33 page bibliography also make this a great resource for graduate students interested in the critical issues of the New Testament Gospels New Testament Systematic Theology I have been meaning to read a descent volume by Bird for some time Systematic Theology I really liked this author s approach to critical issues involving the gospels This excerpt is from Chapter 2 There are two approaches to the Gospels that I ardently deride First some ber secularists want to read the Bible as nothing than a deposit of silly ancient magic mischievous myths wacky rituals and surreal superstitions They engage in endless comparisons of the Bible with other mythic religions to flatten out the distinctive elements of the story Added to that is advocacy of countless conspiracy theories to explain away any historical elements in the text This approach is coupled with an inherent distaste for anything supernatural pre modern and reeking of religion Such skeptics become positively evangelical in their zealous fervor to prove that nothing in the Bible actually happened Second then there are those equally ardent Bible believers who want to treat the Bible as if it fell down from heaven in 1611 written in ye aulde English bound in pristine leather with words of Jesus in red Scofield s notes and charts of the end times Such persons regard exploring topics like problems in Johannine chronology just as religiously affronting as worshiping a life size golden statue of Barack Obama Now I have to say that both approaches bore the proverbial pants off me They are equally as dogmatic as they are dull They are as uninformed as they are unimaginative There is another way My own approach is what I would term believing criticism This approach treats Scripture as the inspired and veracious Word of God but contends that we do Scripture the greatest service when we commit ourselves to studying it in light of the context and processes through which God gave it to us Scripture is trustworthy because of God s faithfulness to his own Word and authoritative because the Holy Spirit speaks to us through it Nonetheless God has seen fit to use human language human authors and even human processes as the means by which he has given his inscripturated revelation to humanity To understand the substance of Scripture means wrestling with its humanity the human face of God s speech to us in his Word That requires that we can freely engage subjects such as how the text of the Gospels was transmitted text criticism sources that the Evangelists used source criticism when and where were the Gospels written historical criticism why the Gospels were written literary criticism what kind of literature they are genre criticism how the Evangelists edited and adapted their sources redaction criticism how the story in its current shape creates meaning narrative criticism how the stories of Jesus interacted with cultural values and modes of discourse social scientific criticism and how the Gospels came to be accepted as the four official stories of Jesus sanctioned by the early churches canonical criticism These are legitimate inquiries not in spite of but precisely in light of the faith communities who cherished the Gospels as testimonies to Jesus Christ Michael F Bird The Gospel of the Lord How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus Grand Rapids MI Cambridge U. Ebook the gospel of the lord free K William B Eerdmans Publishing Company 2014 67 68 New Testament Systematic Theology 2023 reads 06Rating 4 starsMichael F Bird is emphatically clear in his aims His goal centers on how the Gospels came to be what kind of literature they are and how they relate to Christian discource about God 7 Connected to this is the interplay between how the communities of early Christianity shaped the Gospels and how they in turn were shaped by the Gospels 7 In short The Gospel of the Lord focuses on the origins and development of the Gospels in the context of the early church 7 How did these Gospels emerge Why did they take on the shape and character that they did These questions are explored with attention given to the Gospels purpose formation literary genetics genre goal and why we have four Bird s conclusion is that the Gospels reflect the literary crystallization of the Jesus tradition supplement Christian preaching about Jesus with didactic content and exemplify early Christian interpretation of the Old Testament 20. The gospel of the lord in spanish Bird s enterprise mirrors the efforts of N T Wright who s method of historical realism has wrested biblical studies and Jesus research in particular from ideal pietism and cynical historicism Bird is very much concerned about history but does not neglect theology in his quest for the origins and development of the Gospels Overall the contribution is well reasoned reasonable witty and largely convincing I find the synoptic question largely vexing as discussions of hypothetical situations encircle like preying vultures on unsuspecting would be confident opinions But Bird steadies a measured path In terms of new ideas and questions for further inquiry two stand out first the reality of the community possession and social memory were new categories for me I thought they were reasonably argued and historically viable I was reminded of Gal 1. The gospel of the lord according to matthew 8 9 which assumes a communal ecclesial interest in the Gospel Conceiving of memory as the the constant renegotiation of past and present in social and cultural frameworks 135 opens up a new paradigm for me to think through especially as it relates to the Gospels What was especially helpful was Bird s subsumming of source and tradition criticism under the rubric of social memory 142 Given that memory takes on a dramatized element I could not help but think of Kevin Vanhoozer s work along similar lines A dramatic inquiry into the Gospel tradition is worth developing especially for discipleship catechesis Second and related to my own research interests acutely I was intrigued by Bird s insistence that a paradigm shift is required in seeing the Jesus tradition not exclusively in terms of verbal transmission but also of praxis deed and behavior delivered on to others 83 More to the point the intersection of the Jesus tradition memory and Torah reception are ideas I d like to explore further This dovetails with Wright s focus of praxis as determinative for aims and beliefs Read for the Gospels Acts Doctoral Seminar with Dr Pennington New Testament Systematic Theology Well written and informativeA solid introduction to the Gospels their histories as far as scholars know them their interrelationships and their selection for the canon New Testament Systematic Theology

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Balanced comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels In this book through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest believers formed the Gospel accounts of Jesus that got written and in turn.