I promised myself long ago that if I ever found software capable of reading and translating Old German fonts then my first priority would be to translate Bruno Bauer’s Kritik der Evangelien und Geschichte ihres Ursprungs = Critique of the Gospels and a History of their Origin.
Now if you do know of an already existing English translation of those three volumes please do be kind enough to let me know so I don’t waste any more time on this project.
Till then, using Kritik der Evangelien und Geschichte ihres Ursprungs. Volume 1 as my source, here is the first installment of that first volume which contains Books 1 and 2. It’s mostly machine translated but still quite readable, I think. If you would like to suggest smoother translations of any passages do leave a comment or email me. Thanks again.
Where there are footnotes I have coloured the row to make it easier to follow the page order in table format.
I’ll be adding more over the coming months and probably years if I am to complete all 3 volumes (=7 books). So check back from time to time in case there are updates.
First Book: The Fourth Gospel
- Foreword
- Ch 1 – John the Baptist & Disciples
- Ch 2 – Miracle at Cana
- Ch 3 – Cleansing the Temple
- Ch 4 – Nicodemus
- Ch 5 – Last words of the Baptist
- Ch 6 – Jesus in Samaria
- Ch 7 – Second Miracle in Galilee
- Ch 8 – First Sabbath Violation
- Ch 9 – The Miraculous Feeding
- Ch 10 – Sabbath Dispute Continued
- Ch 11 – The Adulteress
- Ch 12 – Dispute about Person of the Lord continues
- Ch 13 – Second Sabbath Forgiveness
- Ch 14 – Conclusion
Second Book: The Birth and Childhood of Jesus
- Ch 1 – Descent of Jesus from David
- Ch 2 – Childhood Story of Luke
- Ch 3 – Origin of Luke’s Gospel Prehistory
- Ch 4 – The Prehistory of Matthew
Third Book: The Original Prehistory
Fourth Book: Public Activity of Jesus
- Ch 1 – The First Appearance of Jesus in Galilee
- Ch 2 – The Calling of the First Four Apostles
- Ch 3 – The Sermon on the Mount
- Ch 4 – The Compilation of Matthew
- Ch 5 – The Compilation of Luke
- Ch 6 – The Plan of the Original Story
- Ch 7 – The Confrontations with the Law and the Pharisees
- Ch 8 – The Parable Speech
- Ch 9 – The Four Miracles
- Ch 10 – The Instruction of the Apostles
Fifth Book: The Conclusion and Completion of Jesus’ Public Ministry.
First Section: The Elijah Deeds of Jesus
Second Section: The Explicit Revelation of Jesus as the Messiah
- Ch 1 – The Confession of Peter
- Ch 2 – The Prophecies of Jesus about His Suffering (pending 13th Jan 2021)
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