Enter your mobile number below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Getting the download link through email is temporarily not available. Please check back later.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone
  • Android

To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.
Download to your computer
Kindle Cloud Reader
Facebook Twitter Pinterest
Buy Used
$11.50
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.
Used: Very Good | Details
Sold by Neighborhood Book Dealer
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comment: great condition, small red spec on bottom edge of the book, otherwise in flawless condition. Fast shipping through Amazon

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and .

If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you increase your sales. We invite you to learn more about Fulfillment by Amazon .

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon
Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more
See all 2 images

Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did Hardcover – May 1, 2001

by Gerd Ludemann (Author), Frank Schleritt (Author), Martina Janssen (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 11 customer reviews
See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Price
New from Used from
Hardcover
"Please retry"
—
$21.03 $7.44
Paperback, International Edition
"Please retry"
—
$52.64 $2.99
Best Books of the Year So Far
Looking for something great to read? Browse our editors' picks for the Best Books of the Year So Far in fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, children's books, and much more.
click to open popover

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did
    Gerd Ludemann
    3.4 out of 5 stars 19
    Paperback
  2. The Acts Of The Apostles: What Really Happened In The Earliest Days Of The Church
    Gerd Ludemann
    3.0 out of 5 stars 1
    Hardcover
    $30.65 Prime
  3. The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (The Biblical Resource Series)
    Mark S. Smith
    4.2 out of 5 stars 30
    Paperback
    $20.42 Prime
  4. How to Read the Bible
    Harvey Cox
    4.2 out of 5 stars 29
    Hardcover
    $18.35 Prime
  5. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
    John Dominic Crossan
    3.5 out of 5 stars 92
    Paperback
    $17.58 Prime
Next
NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE
New York Times best sellers
Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. See more

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 707 pages
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books; New edition edition (May 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1573928909
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573928908
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.2 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,680,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsVery useful commentary on the ancient gospels
By Peter Kirby on July 23, 2003
Format: Hardcover
If you liked The Five Gospels, you'll love Jesus After 2000 Years.
Gerd Luedemann is a scholar based in Germany who participated in the Jesus Seminar and recently came out as a non-Christian (explained in his book The Great Deception). Having read five of his books, I must say that "Jesus After 2000 Years" is my favorite and the one that I have found the most useful. It is not more popularizing pablum on the historical Jesus. Rather, it is a critical commentary on the ancient texts: the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of John (by Frank Schleritt), the Gospel of Thomas, and the Apocryphal Jesus Traditions (by Martina Janssen). As Luedemann says in the preface: "My plan is to offer a new translation of the most important extant traditions about Jesus in the first two centuries and then to investigate their historical credibility, in such a way that educated lay people, too, can follow the argument."
The format of the book is brilliant. Each section begins with a fresh translation of the text; for example, the first is Mark 1.1-8, starting with "Beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Those portions of the text that apparently belong to the creation of the gospel writer are presented in italic text. Following the translation is a section on "Redaction and tradition." In this section we find commentary on the meaning of the text, such as "This sums up the whole Gospel of Mark, which sets out to be the gospel of Jesus Christ." Finally, there is a section titled "Historical" in which the value of the tradition for reconstructing history is presented, such as, "John the Baptist practised baptism for repentance by the Jordan; by it the sins of those being baptized will be forgiven on the day of judgment, which is imminent.Read more ›
Comment 25 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Reference Work
By Amazon Customer on June 20, 2005
Format: Hardcover
Gerd Lüdemann's ambitious Jesus After 2000 Years represents an attempt at what Lüdemann describes as a "long overdue" historical stocktaking of the writings about Jesus, including both canonical and non-canonical writings. Lüdemann's expressed aim is to produce a comprehensive work that is accessible to the lay reader, not a life of Jesus, which he says is not currently possible, but an historical analysis of what people said about him later. In this aim he is admirably and thoroughly successful, producing a work of unexcelled usefulness and clarity that should become a well-thumbed entry on the bookshelf of every person interested in New Testament research and writing.

Lüdemann's masterwork covers nearly 700 pages, the standard size in a field where gigantic tomes are the norm. It is broken up into three major sections: a short introduction laying out his historical methodology, a weighty second section that offers a pericope-by-pericope study of the canonical gospels, and a shorter section on the non-canonical gospels. A short final chapter offers a life of Jesus in extremely tentative form. There is no review of the letters of Paul.

The key section of the book is the analysis of the Canonical gospels. Each pericope is presented in a fixed format. First the text of the gospel is presented, with redactional additions from each evangelist printed in italics. Lüdemann then presents a quick verse by verse discussion of the redaction and tradition history, followed by a separate section on historicity. To save space, Lüdemann simply presents his conclusion. For example, on Luke 8:1-3, he writes: "Apart from the names, the historical yield is nil.Read more ›
Comment 18 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsCuts through the clutter to the _history_ of Jesus
By Peter Stoffel on February 20, 2004
Format: Hardcover
This book was recommended to me from a friend when I mentioned that I understood that different parts of the bible were written at different times, but didn't know what was added by enthusiastic translators/editors.
This book clearly answers that question.
Jesus After 200 Years is a 700 page tome that is a little intimidating when you first get your hands on it. However, the book is broken down into seven manageable chapters (not including the important-to-read introduction). Basically, it starts with the earliest known written gospel, Mark, and works backwards in cronology to Matthew, Luke, and John. Chapter five examines the gospel of Thomas; six looks at Apocryphal Jesus Traditions and the final chapter is a nine page biographical-summary description of the _historical_ life of Jesus -written as though he were an ancient secular historical figure.
Here is what the book so interesting and valuable. For every bible passage the author indicates which portion is true to the earliest known records/version of the bible, and which portion was added/embellished at a later date. Incredibly insightful!
The book is very "readable" because, as the author explains in his preface, he has not cited every source for every little thing, so you are not bombarded by subscripts and superscripts. To quote, "They say nothing to lay people and specialists know them anyway." (There are plenty of authors cited in the book, just not the particular article or book they wrote that he is pulling from.)
As another reviewer mentioned, this is not a book that you read cover-to-cover. Instead, you should read the introduction to all of the chapters and then reference the book when examining certain sections of the bible.
If you have a bible on your bookshelf, you need to have this next to it.
Comment 12 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 starsHe covers the material in great depth and has some excellent insights...

The author is one of the arrogant Ph'ds who thinks he's infallible. He covers the material in great depth and has some excellent insights if he could only get over himself.

Published 6 months ago by vic
5.0 out of 5 starsTruth and Fiction

A book more for specialists than the average reader this profound analysis of the Gospels, the four canonical ones and some others, is a masterpiece. Read more

Published 6 months ago by N. Ravitch
4.0 out of 5 starsbut I think that this book makes a good effort at separating the man...

A bit dense at times, but an exhaustive review of the Gospels as history (or, for the most part) non-history. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Theodore Low
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

The final word of the controversial author on his favorite subject.

Published 12 months ago by Alberto Mendez
5.0 out of 5 starsTHE GERMAN NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLAR EVALUATES ALL THE TEXTS ABOUT JESUS

Gerd Lüdemann (born 1946), is a German scholar who taught New Testament from 1983 to 1999 at the University of Göttingen. Read more

Published on June 25, 2013 by Steven H Propp
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent evaluation of the background of the text

This is an exemplary book that provides critical analysis of the texts of the gospels and provides a scholarly judgement on the sources, authenticity of the sayings and actions... Read more

Published on March 28, 2013 by Michael_in_SC
4.0 out of 5 starsEssential Resource

Michael Turton and Peter Kirby have already provided excellent reviews of this outstanding book, so there's no need to repeat what they have already said. Read more

Published on August 31, 2006 by Dr. James Gardner
1.0 out of 5 starsGreat questions, poor answers

I was happy to hear that Gerd, a major scholar in teh jesus seminar movement, finally came out of the closet to say that he was, in fact, an athiest and not a theist. Read more

Published on September 7, 2003 by matt

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.