Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity

An interesting work, though somewhat disappointing to someone who has read his previous works. I don't mind someone changing their mind about something, even something as critical as whether Jesus is myth or history, and whether Paul was talking about a historical Jesus or a cosmic one. I do mind someone who just sort of announces that he has done, without giving rhyme or reason; try a logical argument, at least. Anyway, the scholarship is there to define Jesus as an apocalyptic preacher, based on the descriptors in the gospels, though one wonders why we should accept that when the author is aware that Jesus, like Yogi Berra, never said everything he said...and possibly never said anything he said. The words in the Bible are those of show more the orators, the preachers, the gospel writers, and not those of Jesus, which the author is clear about. So the argument is confusing, though the details of the work are interesting and thorough. Definitely worth reading, but, as I said, disappointing.. show less