ABSTRACT
Professor Darrell L. Bock, a specialist in Luke-Acts, is sensitive to the problem of recovering the precise words Jesus spoke or even of harmonizing all the words of the text. Jesus’ “voice” is both a summary of what Jesus taught and the subsequent interpretation given by the inspired writers of the Gospels. Although many New Testament scholars contend that the Gospels, Paul’s epistles, and the Epistle to the Hebrews transformed the historical Jesus into a supernatural being, they do not believe the motive was that of misrepresenting Jesus the man. Many biblical scholars appear to think that the legendary Jesus has been as influential as, if not more influential than, the historical Jesus. Numerous stories and sayings grew around Lincoln, and many grew around the Jesus figure. Darrell L. Bock, representing the newer generation of Evangelical scholars, raises the question of whether the authors of the four Gospels presented their own rather than Jesus’ theology.
