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History, Experience, Theology
This book, which has sparked a storm of controversy in Germany, embarks on an exhaustive examination of all the New Testament and Apocrypha texts real...
New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann continues his exploration of the life and teachings of Paul in this groundbreaking monograph, which synthesizes t...
The Real Story of Mary and Her Son Jesus
What historical realities lie behind the birth of Jesus and the description of the Holy Family by the evangelists? In this book, controversial New Tes...
What He Really Said and Did
"Despite these difficulties, Gerd Ludemann shows in this fascinating analysis of early Christian documents that the tools of historical research can s...
The Other Side of Early Christianity
Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was not a period of great harmony, but was de...
The Pope Looks at Jesus
Pope Benedict XVI) to respond critically to his book Jesus of Nazareth, Gerd Ldemann offers a meticulous and devastating critique.""The historian," wr...
Studies in Chronology
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The Dark Side of the Bible
German scholar Gerd Ludemann asks the question of how we can continue to be Christians in the light of what he sees as "unholy" elements in Scripture,...
Gnostic Spirituality in Early Christianity
Hymns & prayers provide a lively impression of how Gnostics felt about the world & attest to their unique religious creativity....
A Commentary
Particularly after the standard commentaries by Ernst Haenchen and Hans Cormehnann, the Acts of the Apostles has come to be seen as a work in which th...
And what Jesus Really Said and Did
It is widely recognized by New Testament scholars that many of the sayings and actions attributed to Jesus in the gospels cannot be factually traced t...
Selected Texts from the New Testament
"In this analysis of key New Testament texts, historian of early Christianity Gerd Ludemann discusses the inherently intolerant attitude characteristi...
A Survey of Recent Studies and Some New Proposals
This is a critical account of the state-of-the-art of scholarship in earliest Christianity, and where and how it should move forward. It offers an aut...