Example sentences for: gospels

How can you use “gospels” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More Mailer bashing: In the Washington Post , Steven Moore says that Norman Mailer's retelling of Jesus' life reads "like a simplified novelization [of the gospels] for grade-school children."

  • For instance, a ninth-century B.C. inscription memorializing a victory over the "House of David" provides material evidence of the Jewish king's existence, while the remains of a crucifixion victim indicate that the Romans would have killed Jesus as the gospels allege.

  • Until I read Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels I recalled the expression the naked truth as having derived from an old Roman fable (perhaps from Horace, around 50 B.C.) about Truth and Falsehood emerging from a swim together, Falsehood stealing Truth's clothers.

  • The cover book review pans Norman Mailer's autobiography of Jesus ( The Gospel According to the Son ) as an unimaginative imitation of the real Gospels.

  • In the weirdest bit, a novelist recreates the Gospels' most dramatic moments and recounts his own meeting with the son of God: He was suddenly transported to Galilee, where Jesus cured his cancer and forgave his sins.


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