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Comments & Reviews
[Jesus the Wicked Priest] is a fascinating reading that combines sources from Dead Sea Scroll materials and Biblical exegesis to produce a surprisingly personal story of conflict between characters in the gospel stories. Vining brings to life a vital, aggressive Jesus, along with some emotionally complex contemporaries, revealing a minor miracle to be the most extraordinary socio-political commentary that could have been made in that time and place. If you’ve had your fill of timid, makepeace Christs, this book is for you.
(Read the full review here.)
—Chris Burton, Armchair Biblical Archeologist
[Jesus the Wicked Priest] is a startling new look at Christianity.
—Midwest Book Reviews, July 2008
Finally! What a great discovery [Jesus the Wicked Priest] is! I am an Episcopal priest, former trial lawyer and avid small-time 'theology tutor.' My prayer and fantasy has been for someone to "connect these dots" I have been grabbed by over the years, and you have done it better than anybody I have read. I'm ecstatic. If I can now find someone to analyze and fix the "starting/stalling" problem in my BMW, the eschaton will have arrived. Thanks so much.
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Gee A., A Reader
Questions
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