The Hebrew Christ: Language in the Age of the Gospels

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Summary: Fascinating and Radical Study of N.T. Texts
Review: Forget about footnotes because there aren't any. But if you've served your time in New Testament criticism, you'll eat this like it was chocolate. The qualifications and authority of the author are obvious. It's a book devoted to discovering the Hebrew that just might lie behind the Greek words of the gospels we now have. It's implications are staggering in terms of the cynicism and flippancy of much current criticism, and it's smoothly and intelligently written. The questions the book asks are key. And its implications for criticism are key. If you believe, as I do, that the gospels were written before the destruction of the Temple, the book will be eloquent for you in expressing this view and very logical in laying out the basis for it as well. In fact, whether you believe this or not, read this book. It's obviously not been read enough. My hope is that more of Tresmontant's work will be translated from the French. We live in a bountiful and wreckless age when it comes to bible criticism, and that is wonderful and at times a little dizzying, but every now and then you want some one -- like Tresmontant -- to talk to you in a still small voice.