A Life of Jesus12 reviews Shusaku Endo Paulist Press, 1978 The man - not the God + THE MORE PERSPECTIVES WE TAKE THE MORE FULLY WE COME TO KNOW AND TO LOVE AND MORE CLOSELY TO FOLLOW OUR LORD + Jesus and His life + Jesus for the Japanese             Strange tales about Jesus: A survey of unfamiliar gospels1 review Per Beskow Fortress Press, 1983 A persuasive expose of popular Jesus scams. In this little book, Swedish scholar Per Beskow takes on some of the most influential stories about Jesus of our time: the Book of Mormon, Life of Saint Issa, Aquarian Gospel, Gospel of Barnabas, Gospel of the Holy Twelve, and others. He describes how each was produced, and shows why each is ...             King Jesus: A Novel18 reviews Robert Graves Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981 A scholarly alternative approach to the life of Jesus + not Graves' best, but still worth a read + Research, research, research. + Fictional-historical story... what's fact, what's fiction?             The Last Temptation of Christ82 reviews Nikos Kazantzakis Touchstone, 1998 Great book for a graduate! + A Heroic Life + It is a novel but a beautiful novel and explicitly spiritual in it's aims and goals. + A Riveting Classic             The Gospel According to the Son70 reviews Norman Mailer Ballantine Books, 1998 A Sweeping Exploration of the Past, Valuable Lessons for Today + interesting perspective + what if Jesus had a chance to set the record straight? + The Gospel according to the Son             Jesus The Son Of Man (Kahlil Gibran Pocket Library)11 reviews Kahlil Gibran Knopf, 1995 A soul companion of a book. + Must Read for Christians + Charming Piece of Fiction + Brilliant + Must Have             The Gospel According to Jesus Christ76 reviews Jose Saramago Harvest Books, 1994 Imaginative and Provocative + Uncharacteristic Characterization of Christ This is a wonderful work of fiction that is creatively devised and unique. It is certainly, as has previously been forewarned by others, not for the devout reader who will take offense when faced with a work of fiction that does not accurately depict Jesus and those closest to him as is told by ...             The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form7 reviews Gerd Theissen Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1987 "Experiencing" Those Who Interpreted Jesus + The Shadow of the Galilean + Learning with Trying To + A different twist to Jesus             The Man Who Died6 reviews D.h. Lawrence Harper Perennial, 1995 DARING MASTERPIECE!!! + Update for Previous Review + Cryptically stunning. Anyone who has a passing interest or knowledge of the origins of Christian Myth will recognize those roots in this final masterpiece by D.H. Lawrence. It is amazing how prescient Lawrence was here. Remember, this was written some 20 years before the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels at Nag Hammadi. ...             City of Wrong: A Friday in Jerusalem (Mystical Classics of the World) M. Kamel Hussein Oneworld Publications, 1995 The first book written in the Islamic world to study Christ's crucifixion, this text recreates the city of Jerusalem on Good Friday, considering the actions and states of mind of the bystanders and participants.             The Work of Betrayal Mario Brelich Marlboro Press, 1989             Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal23 reviews Gore Vidal Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993 What would Jesus do? "select all" then "delete" + Very Creative! + Truly funny, truly insightful The book is first and foremost a lampoon of Christianity, more specifically, the early years of the church. St. Timothy is a first hand observer St. Paul's effort to expand the market for Christianity. Other Vidal books have documented his cynicism of Christianity and the religious right, but "Live ...             Quarantine: A Novel69 reviews Jim Crace Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 What Did Jesus Do? + Desert dying, desert God + Provocative ending + The Temptation of Jesus + fasting             Jesus Tales1 review Romulus Linney North Point Pr, 1987 Jesus from Italy to Texas Have you read a bit of Irish Apocrypha? Or the Hungarian "folk Bible"? or the religious tales at the end of the Grimm Brothers? Romulus Linney has taken the folk tales of Jesus and breathed new life into them. Like their sources, the tales are delightfully irreverently reverent - a wonderful ...             A Quest for the Post-Historical Jesus1 review William Hamilton Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd), 1994 A narrow minded author on a very wide subject I don't like this book at all. It seems very superficial in his judgment of many important fictionalizations about Jesus, as for example his coments on Kalhil Gibran's "Jesus, the son of man", wich is one of the most influential books of the sixties. He didn't consider expressions of popular ...             Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal23 reviews Gore Vidal Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993 What would Jesus do? "select all" then "delete" + Very Creative! + Truly funny, truly insightful The book is first and foremost a lampoon of Christianity, more specifically, the early years of the church. St. Timothy is a first hand observer St. Paul's effort to expand the market for Christianity. Other Vidal books have documented his cynicism of Christianity and the religious right, but "Live ...             City of Wrong: A Friday in Jerusalem (Mystical Classics of the World) M. Kamel Hussein Oneworld Publications, 1995 The first book written in the Islamic world to study Christ's crucifixion, this text recreates the city of Jerusalem on Good Friday, considering the actions and states of mind of the bystanders and participants.             Jesus The Son Of Man (Kahlil Gibran Pocket Library)11 reviews Kahlil Gibran Knopf, 1995 A soul companion of a book. + Must Read for Christians + Charming Piece of Fiction + Brilliant + Must Have             The Last Temptation of Christ82 reviews Nikos Kazantzakis Touchstone, 1998 Great book for a graduate! + A Heroic Life + It is a novel but a beautiful novel and explicitly spiritual in it's aims and goals. + A Riveting Classic             The Gospel According to Jesus Christ76 reviews Jose Saramago Harvest Books, 1994 Imaginative and Provocative + Uncharacteristic Characterization of Christ This is a wonderful work of fiction that is creatively devised and unique. It is certainly, as has previously been forewarned by others, not for the devout reader who will take offense when faced with a work of fiction that does not accurately depict Jesus and those closest to him as is told by ...