Introduction
This
book is a new attempt, hopefully to be the last, in the search for the sources
which were relied upon by the Gospel authors to write the Gospels.
Despite
many attempts and efforts by scholars and researchers to detect the sources of
the Gospels over the past centuries, they are unable to reach a decisive
conclusion in determining their sources, due to several factors such as, the loss of the
original manuscripts, ignorance of the history of their authors, the exact date
of writing them, the lack of
understanding of the purpose of their writing and the ways of writing, as well
as the Lack of thorough understanding of the relationship between them and the
Old Testament, both in texts or principles and concepts, and finally the lack
of knowledge about the sects whom have believed in Christ as a prophet and
messenger, not as a god and the son of God, such as the Arians and others.
Because
of this, I endeavored in this book to overcome many of these factors, and
relied in the detection of these sources through search in the relationship
between the Old Testament and the Gospels, both in the principles and concepts
of the Old Testament and the texts which had been quoted in the Gospels by the
authors.
Also,
I studied the meaning of the word Gospel, and the ways of writing the Gospels,
to solve the question of how they had been written, if it was through the
revelation and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or it was written for a
particular purpose, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit.
The
book is divided into five sections, a preface, three chapters and a conclusion.
In
the preface, I have briefly reviewed a part of the history of the Gospels and the
most famous theories and scholars that have searched for the gospels sources,
and I mentioned some of the newly discovered Gospels.
In
the first chapter, I explained the most important principles and concepts of
the Old Testament and compared them with the principles and concepts of the
Gospels.
In
the second chapter, I studied the meaning of the word gospel and the purpose of
the Gospels authors to write them. Also showed the existence of several lost
gospels, which had been preached by the Apostles and the disciples.
In
the third chapter, I showed the way of writing the Gospels, as well as I studied
the texts of the Old Testament that were quoted by the Gospels authors; given
the numerous of texts and the variety of ways of citation, it was divided into
several sections, as shown below:
In
the first section, I showed several texts in the Gospels that have been
attributed to the Old Testament, while they are not written in it.
In
the second section, I showed some texts in the Gospels that have been
attributed to some books of the Old Testament, yet they are written in other
books.
In
the third section, I showed some texts in the Gospels contain some names and
numbers that inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament.
In
the fourth section, I studied the texts which have been attributed directly to
the Old Testament, and compared them with the texts of the Old Testament, to
find out the reality of those texts, and if they were fulfilled in Jesus and
his time and his generation or not.
In
the fifth section, I studied the texts, which were cited from the Old Testament
during some dialogues and discussions and arguments that took place between the
persons of the New Testament, whether Jesus or the Jews or even the devil.
In
the sixth section, I studied the texts which were not attributed directly to
the Old Testament, but were quoted from it, and compared them with the texts of
the Old Testament to find out the reliability, credibility and reality of them,
and if they were talking about Jesus or not.
And
finally, a conclusion that summarizes the book's findings.
Nader Isa
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