Kučera - Looking for the Bethsaida of the gospels (dec 2025)
Posted: August 13th, 2025, 12:07 pm
I figured the release date in the post title is probably more important than the price so will do that for future postings
131 Euros.
https://brill.com/display/title/73507? ... &result=27
131 Euros.
https://brill.com/display/title/73507? ... &result=27
In this volume, the modern scholarly consensus that the Bethsaida of the Gospels was east of the Jordan River and the concomitant negative assessment of the evangelists’ geographical knowledge is subjected to a meticulous multidisciplinary scrutiny. Recourse is made, inter alia, to textual criticism, archaeology, numismatics, odology, anemology and linguistics. The ancient literary record is scoured, in the original languages, for all and any relevant references: Josephus Flavius, Pliny, Ptolemy, Julian the Apostate, Origen, Eusebius, Jerome, Epiphanius, John Chrysostom, Augustine, rabbinic literature, apocryphal literature, pilgrim reports and finally the Gospels themselves. It is argued that the one-Bethsaida-east-of-the-Jordan-River-theory with all its implications does not withstand scrutiny.