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Before I left, my father had given me a brand new Bible. It was a children's Bible, written in modern english with lots of pictures. I read all of my other books in the first two days.
That contemporary version of a river raft belongs to Millroy, who enlists Jilly in his mission to purify America's digestive system. It's a sewer, he says, clogged with grease, sugar and the flesh of slaughtered mammals. The wizard preaches the loaves-and-fishes diet. His nutritional guide is...
A different but serious problem is whether all the interest deductions were proper. Seven tax experts consulted by TIME express strong doubts. One is Lawrence M. Stone, a former Treasury Department tax attorney who has taught tax law at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Yale and co- written...
For Crossan, Jesus' deification was akin to the worship of Augustus Caesar -- a mixture of myth, propaganda and social convention. It was simply a thing that was done in the ancient Mediterranean world. Christ's pedigree -- his virgin birth in Bethlehem of Judea, home of his reputed ancestor King David...
Not surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of...