{"id":389,"date":"2005-09-29T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/09\/the-story-of-the-christ.html"},"modified":"2005-09-29T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T18:45:42","slug":"the-story-of-the-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/09\/the-story-of-the-christ.html","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been asked to comment on the book with my name on it called The Story of the Christ<\/a><\/em>.
\nThe book was commissioned in England with T&T Clark\/Continuum, and recently picked up by Baker Books in the USA. Hence, there are two publication dates. It is a short “introduction” to the life of Jesus, where about half the book is my “introduction” and the rest a continuous narrative of the Gospel texts.
\nHere’s the tack I took: What would a 1st Century reporter have said about Jesus had that person encountered Jesus in (the) Galilee? So, it is a neutral introduction to the way Jesus strikes us if we really don’t know much about him — which struck me as both impossible (since I do know him) and challenging (since knowing him means we have angles on what he was like). In that introduction are some introductory issues — like how did we get the Gospels, etc..
\nIt was fun to write, and maybe will be of use to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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