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"Searching for Jesus" by Robert J. Hutchinson

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The book is interesting. The main thrust of the book is to show how (to borrow some phrases from the subtitle) "new discoveries in the quest for Jesus of Nazereth" mainly "confirm the gospel accounts." The book takes as its main task to argue that "many of the 'scientific' or scholarly ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete, based on assumptions, theories, and unproven hypotheses that are, in some cases, more than a century old and which have been superseded by more recent research" (p. xvi, emphasis in original). Rather, Hutchinson argues, "new discoveries are causing some experts to wonder if the basic portraits of Jesus in the Gospels is far more plausible than the elaborate reconstructions created by academic skeptics over the past 150


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