This is an analysis of comparisons the Rabbis made with kings, limited to Roman Palestine and to the ninety-year period beginning with the accession of the Emperor Septimius Severus in 193 C.E. and ending with the accession of Diocletian. Based primarily on the original rabbinic…
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One of the distinctive features of biblical myth in general and of the Gospels in particular, as David Friedrich Strauss observed in his The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, is the making of myths out of historical (and historical-seeming) events. Strauss was the first…
Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot p…
Swift, sparing, limpid, and hauntingly intense.
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"A memoir by the author of And I Shall Have Some Peace There about how Margaret Roach's surrender to gardening saved her life"--Provided by the publisher.
"A memoir by the author of And I shall have some peace there about how [her] surrender to gardening saved her life"--Provided by the publisher
