The Gospels: A new translation, by Sarah Ruden
Author: Sarah Ruden. Review by Jonathan Wooding
Like Scrooge, Elizabeth Bennett and Sherlock Holmes, Jesus arrives in our imaginations via the word. Our imagination shapes such characters mysteriously and, we find, mysteriously they shape us. They may not have a life without us, but equally we would not be who we are without them.
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