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God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

Moss, Candida

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral ChristianityGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0316564672
ISBN13: 9780316564670
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.

For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of unnamed, enslaved coauthors and collaborators. These essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament: making the parchment on which the texts were written, taking dictation, and refining the words of the apostles. And as the Christian message grew in influence, it was enslaved missionaries who undertook the arduous journey across the Mediterranean and along dusty roads to move Christianity to Rome, Spain, and North Africa--and into the pages of history. The impact of these enslaved contributors on the spread of Christianity, the development of foundational Christian concepts, and the making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now.

Filled with profound revelations both for what it means to be a Christian and for how we read individual texts themselves, God's Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity.

Winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Religion A 2025 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner

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