Origin of the Four Gospels (Paperback)

Translator's preface; Author's preface; 1. The Gospels our sources for the life of Jesus; 2. Importance of the historical witnesses for the Gospels; 3. Evidence from the last decades of the second century; 4. Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clemens of Alexandria, the canon of Muratori, the oldest Latin and Syriac translation; 5. Shortly before Irenaeus; 6. First and fourth quarters of the second century; 7. Justin and the Epistle to Diognetus; 8. The Gospel of the Hebrews; 9. The literature of heresy before and in the middle of the second century; 10. Marcion; 11. Montanism and the Alogians; 12. Celsus vs. Christianity; 13. The New Testament apocryphal literature; 14. The pseudo-Clementines; 15. Barnabas; 16. When and how to come to a decision regarding the four Gospels; 17. The testimony of Papias; 18. New Testament criticism; 19. Its evidence as to a lost form of Matthew and Mark; 20. The text of the second century presupposes a full history of the canon, and gives evidence of its existence at about the close of the first century; 21. Evidence omitted; 22. Misunderstandings and hypotheses regarding the Gospel of John; 23. Concluding remarks.