biography

Patrick was a strong and contrageuous man who never grew tired of preaching the Catholic faith. This is an elementary version of his life but the teaching ideas are valuable.

In the Days of Jesus fills a need for college classes and adult readers who have not yet been introduced to modern biblical scholarship, but who have limited time at their disposal to learn to read the gospels in their historical context. Written in easy, fluent style, the book tells the story of the Jewish context for the life of Jesus and for the community's accounts of him.

30 writers bring insights from all five continents. How much do we really know about Jesus?.

Imagine that archaeologists discovered a first-century gospel written by a woman.

Powers stretches Jesus' passion out over the last year of the public ministry, not restricting it to its culmination on Calvary.

Grant looks at the Gospels with an historian's eye, treating them in exactly the same way as he would any other works of ancient literature capable of yielding historical information.

Makes the life of Christ visual before our eyes.

Jesus becomes, under Yancey's faithful eye, human and divine and powerfully present, in the text of Scripture and in our lives.