Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “rec. by Rabbi Matuson; I liked the book it was well written.” see full review » see other reviews »

Didn’t Like It Rated 2 stars “I made it a few dozen pages in, but was put off by the way Chilton mixes imaginative narration with events that we have evidence to suggest may have happened. He couldn't decide on whether he wanted to write a book about the historical Jesus or a novel about Jesus as a character. I did appreciate...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 2 stars

  “I made it a few dozen pages in, but was put off by the way Chilton mixes imaginative narration with events that we have evidence to suggest may have happened. He couldn't decide on whether he wanted to write a book about the historical Jesus or a novel about Jesus as a character. I did appreciate the perspective of putting Jesus in his religious context as a Jew, and it's something we don't really see too often, but the leaps and bounds he took with the kind of person Jesus was and his life made me feel as if he was writing uninformed impressions down. The whole narrative quality didn't interest me at all, and I found it annoying; that's the basic reason I didn't want to attempt finishing this book; I was looking for something more about what evidence (scant though it may be) we have for what Jesus the man was like.”

  David F wrote this review Tuesday, November 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “I loved this information. It actually answers a lot of questions about Jesus' compassion for the downtrodden and underprivileged. It helped strenghten my faith.”

  Carol Z wrote this review Friday, July 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 4 stars

  “rec. by Rabbi Matuson; I liked the book it was well written.”

  Laurie S wrote this review Tuesday, June 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Well written book on the life of Jesus.”

  brother philip wrote this review Friday, December 14 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No