Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes Jeffrey J. Selingo ISBN10: 1092744444

ISBN10: 1092744444

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They reflect the political urgency of Bertolt Brecht and anticipate the tragic farce of Samuel Beckett but play out through dialogue and characterization that is unmistakably Russian

Menn identifies the importance of eschatology through its connections with the overall story line of the Bible

It mocks misogyny

Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes Jeffrey J. Selingo ISBN10: 1092744444In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests. Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus from the stories of his birth to his physical resurrection are not literally true. He offers convincing evidence that the Gospels are a collection of Jewish midrashic stories written to convey the