August 4, 2009
No, it’s not my idea. But I found this to be a very thought provoking quotation from Norman Solomon’s Judaism: A Very Short Introduction.
Strange as it may seem, the Talmud and other founding texts of rabbinic Judaism were actually written later than the Gospels, which were the founding texts of Christianity. When the Pope recently [...]
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August 4, 2009
Periodically I forget how silly people can get about Jesus. Today whiling away some happy hours in Blackwells, I spotted yet another just published book of tripe. When Jesus Lived in India: The Quest for the Aquarian Gospel, the Mystery of the Missing Years.
According to the blurb:
The problem of the ‘missing years’ is one of [...]
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