Criticism of the Bible - The New Testament

Criticism of the Bible - The New Testament The collection in this upload focuses on the criticism of the New Testament. For faster download, the size of the collection is kept under 250 MB. 1- Zenos - The Elements of Higher Criticism, 1895. 2- Balmforth - The New Testament in Light of Higher Criticism, 1905. 3- Conybeare - History of New Testament Criticism, 1910. 4 & 5- Reuss - History of Sacred Scriptures of New Testament, 1884, Volumes 1 & 2. 6- Waite - History of Christian Religion to Year 200, 5th edition, 1900. 7- Kenyon - Handbook to Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 1912. 8- Vincent - History of Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 1899. 9- Wright - Composition of the Four Gospels – A Critical Inquiry, 1890. 10- Hitchcock - The Present Controversy of Gospel Miracles, 1915. 11- Petrie - Growth of the Gospels, 1910. 12- Sanday - Criticism of the Fourth Gospel, 1908. 13- Martin - Life of Jesus in Light of Higher Criticism, 1913. 14- Hull - Our Bible, Who Wrote It, 1900.

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BlackLaval (2009-05-29)

Thanks moman73, I think the books you're uploading are great. They may help us understand a little more about our religious traditions and have critical view upon them.
However, I think you have a MAJOR book missing in this torrent: Albert Schweitzer's The Search for the Historical Jesus.
I downloaded it in HTML format somewhere and read it a few years ago. I thinks it's the best book in its kind.
And how about more modern approaches like Robert M. Price's and/or the Jesus Seminar papers and translations?

tpbsuxx (2009-05-29)

jesus never existed in the first place, all religions are built upon psychotic myths, current ones doesn't differ from old out-of-fashion ones, they're just far worse by being way more totalitarian for instance

BlackLaval (2009-05-30)

Although I think the best thing to do with trolls is ignore them, so they can find a new vandalic hobbie like burning ants or something, I think I'll have a few words with Mr. tpbsuxx here.
I was an atheist for most of my life, but recently I changed my mind as I think faith is a much more subversive and brave position these days, atheism (or agnosticism) have become the new orthodoxy, at least amog educated people, now I'm some sort of Pagan Christian, with a real skepticism (and sometimes anger) towards organized religion. But anyway, believe me when I tell you that blasphemy can be an addiction, and as the cliché goes it IS some sort of reverse prayer, why investing so much of our time insulting something that doesn't exist? I think that atheist believe again (just for the thrill) the moment they utter a blasphemy.
But let's remember that the greatest blasphemy in Ancient times was Christianity, and Jesus was called in his time (a time of his own) The Blasphemer Saint
And of course he never existed, he's just a possibilty, a fiction, but, going back to the basics, we must remember that fiction doesn't have to exist to be true; dreams and stories are all that's left, and Jesus's is a strong story, you CAN'T remain untouched after reading Mark's narrative of the Passion, unless you have a dull intellect or a weak imagination you CAN'T.
A greater and more passionate atheist than you accepted it, somewhere (I think it was on The Wanderer and His Shadow or in Mixed Opinions and Maxims) he said something of the sort of: 'Even now, the Cross remains the most touching symbol of them all.'

padme99 (2009-06-10)

If you like this torrent then stop by to say thanks if you don't like it move on!
No one is forcing you to read or download or act upon the information in any way. FAce it troll, you are on the net-world wide net-and not in jewish only Israel, you have to face millions of opinions and thousands of cultures and hundreds of races and scores of religion. You can't change every one's to your view so take my advice and take a hike.
Can't believe these folks (trolls) have nowhere to fit into despite the tremendous choice the internet gives.

Blodhosta (2009-10-04)

BlackLaval:
I'm sure you're an educated person, so I'm surprised to see so much of what looks like complete thought-errors to me. I must be wrong, but I can't see how... :/
You say you stoped being an atheist because faith is braver. With the standard definition of atheism I don't see how that statement makes any sense. At least in philosophy I think it is widely held that you can not will yourself to believe something, so whether you feel faith to be brave or not I can't see how it would make you any less of an atheist. (You could of course ACT as though you were not an atheist but that is something different, of course).
Second, you seem to say that it is brave because it is not the opinion held by the majority of the intelligentsia, but this, too, makes no sense to me. It sounds as though what makes the beliefe admirable is the fact that it goes against the majority of educated people, but there are an innumerable amount of things held for true by this majority that none of us consider brave to believe in (the majority, I'd like to think, is opposed to social-darwinism too, and still I don't think that you think of social-darwinism as brave - at least not for this reason).
Third, considering the story of Jesus inspirational doesn't make anyone a Christian. It scarcely makes a case for religious sentiments towards Jesus and is unrelated to the rest of the Bible. I think Socrates was an inspirational charachter too, and the man you quoted is another one (who's admirable passion has helped me through 10 years of clinical depression), but this doesn't make me a "Socratesian" or a "Nietzschean" (the latter I would consider almost an oxymoron, btw).
About tpbsuxx's blasphemy and it being reversed prayer it's of no great importance here so I won't go in to it, but I still want to say that to some degree I object to both the ad hominem and the general statement. It holds SOME validity too, I think, but also shoots itself in the foot through objecting to blasphemy by saying it is similar to that which is defended (religiousity). Since the word prayer, for a religious person, holds a positive connotation I guess it in this context would be a praise of tpbsuxx's blasphemy and that he should keep it up.
On the whole it is kind of funny (and I don't mean this as a critique, just a curious observation) that in a way you adhear to a religion not because you need it, but because the religion needs you! :) "Ask not what your religion can do for you; ask what you can do for your religion."
Ps. Please note that I'm not arguing for or against anything. This is solely a critique of the structure of BlackLaval's comment. And BlackLaval; don't take it personally! ^_^ Ds.

nedand (2012-09-04)

Thank you very much!