ABSTRACT
Can the different pictures of Jesus in the New Testament be reconciled? Or are they simply simulations, the products of a virtual Gospel? 'Simulating Jesus' argues that the gospels do not represent four versions of one Jesus story but rather four distinct narrative simulacra, each of which is named "Jesus". The book explores the theory and evidence justifying this claim and discusses its practical and theological consequences. The simulations of Jesus in each of the gospels are analysed and placed alongside Jesus simulacra elsewhere in the Bible and contemporary popular culture. 'Simulating Jesus' offers a radical understanding of Scripture that will be of interest to students and scholars of biblical studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |45 pages
Virtual Bible, Virtual Gospel
chapter |21 pages
Virtuality and the Bible
chapter |22 pages
The Simulation of Jesus and the Virtual Gospel
part |91 pages
Four Jesuses
chapter |21 pages
Matthew's Gospel According to Pasolini
chapter |21 pages
Child and Kingdom: On some Unsettling Language in the Gospel of Mark
chapter |24 pages
Dark Conceptions: The Two Fathers of Luke's Jesus
chapter |23 pages
John Simulates the Anti-simulacrum: Reading Jesus' Writing
part |83 pages
Canonical Reality Effects