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...Thinking Outside the Box In his report on the Jesus tomb controversy [March 12], David Van Biema wrote that James Tabor's book The Jesus Dynasty "enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father." What is speculative about Jesus' having a human father? I find it much more speculative to suggest that a divine being impregnated a virgin girl. Perhaps the time will finally arrive when Christians accept the Bible for what it is: a series of allegories that aren't meant to be taken literally. Fred Green, Miami...
...which an officer attempted to subdue a suspect with a beanbag gun and failed. Sullivan said that the officer was forced to use his handgun in self-defense, but might have been able to subdue the suspect with a Taser had he had one. —Nicholas K. Tabor contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Khalid Abdalla can be reached at kabdalla@fas.harvard.edu...
...Thinking Outside the Box In his report on the Jesus tomb controversy [March 12], David Van Biema wrote that James Tabor's book The Jesus Dynasty "enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father." What is speculative about Jesus' having a human father? I find it much more speculative to suggest that a divine being impregnated a virgin girl. Perhaps the time will finally arrive when Christians accept the Bible for what it is: a series of allegories that aren't meant to be taken literally. Fred Green, MIAMI...
...Staff writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...
...issue is less titles like The Jesus Papers--by Michael Baigent, a nonacademic who claims Jesus survived the Crucifixion but who cannot produce solid proof--than the plunge into alternative biblical narrative by recognized scholars. The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who also aided Jacobovici, enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father and hoped for an earthly kingship. Professors and best-selling authors Elaine Pagels and Bart Ehrman both have books out claiming to derive new insights from the rediscovered Gnostic...