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When reporters informed you that you had won the Nobel Prize last October, your first words were "Oh, Christ." Were you at all excited? No, I wasn't. If I may be catty, Sweden doesn't have anything else. There's not a great literary tradition, so they make the most of the Nobel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing Q and A | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...work in question falls into the hands of a company, forget it. In his book American Jesus, Prothero wrote extensively about the massively reproduced 1940 portrait of Christ called "Son of Man" by the artist Warner Sallman. He wanted to use it as an illustration in the book. Sallman died in 1968, and Prothero says that the the portrait is currently owned by a religious press (a non-profit) whose price for its use was so high that he opted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns That Prayer? | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...messiah rising from the dead after three days years before Jesus' birth, according to a new interpretation of a 1st century B.C. stone tablet. A controversial translation by Hebrew University scholar Israel Knohl contains the phrase "In three days you shall live"--setting a possible precedent for Christ's resurrection story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...with ancient Hebrew writing that appeared in London, offered by a reputable Jordanian dealer. Jeselson bought it and then, distracted by more collecting, forgot it. Today, however, some scholars say that the fractured, three-foot-long sandstone tablet challenges the uniqueness of the idea of the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Bought a Resurrection | 7/8/2008 | See Source »

...them like the line in the Gabriel stone) than on the testimony of eyewitnesses to Jesus' post-Resurrection self. Finally, Witherington notes that if he is wrong and Knohl's reading is right, it at least sets to rest the notion that the various gospel quotes attributed to Christ foreshadowing his death and Resurrection were textual retrojections put in his mouth by later believers - Jesus the Messianic Jew, as Knohl sees him, would have been familiar with the vocabulary for his own fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Jesus' Resurrection a Sequel? | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

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