Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
The controversial, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of Jesus.
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The controversial, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of Jesus. National Catholic Reporter This is an extremely interesting, erudite, informative, must-read for anyone interested in the New Testament...Read it.
Chapter One\ A Tale of Two Gods\ Whereas Providence . . . has . . . adorned our lives with the highest good: Augustus . . . and has in her beneficence granted us and those who will come after us [a Savior] who has made war to cease and who shall put everything [in peaceful] order . . . with the result that the birthday of our God signalled the beginning of Good News for the world because of him . . . therefore . . . the Greeks in Asia Decreed that the New Year begin for all the cities on September 23 . . . and the first month shall . . . be observed as the Month of Caesar, beginning with 23 September, the birthday of Caesar.\ \ Decree of calendrical change on marble stelae\ in the Asian temples dedicated to the Roman\ Empire and Augustus, its first emperor
\ New York Times Book ReviewCrossan paints his Jesus with great warmth and power. He achieves a portrait that both takes in the contemporary background yet accounts for Jesus' distinctiveness...This Jesus is a Jewish peasant, with a direct sense of God's immediacy, who shatters all social restraints.\ \ \ \ \ National Catholic ReporterThis is an extremely interesting, erudite, informative, must-read for anyone interested in the New Testament...Read it.\ \ \ Robert W. FunkJesus is a magisterial distillation of Crossan's lifelong work on the gospels and Jesus. It deserves careful and extended consideration by everyone seriously interested in the enigmatic sage from Galilee. With his work on Jesus, Crossan joins the ranks of the truly great biblical scholars of the twentieth century. His 'revolutionary biography' is the biography of a revolutionary: the book and its subject are rebels in the cause of truth.\ \
