Jesus the Magician
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"A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned."--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman
This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth about Jesus is more interesting and…
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1 author picked Jesus the Magician as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Finally, I offer Morton Smith’s earlier study of the real-life Jesus. Everything Smith wrote was worth the time to read. His prose bristles with occasional invective, but always at the expense of figures from long ago. He takes no prisoners, shall we say, in his scholarship, and Jesus the Magician is exhibit A.
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