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Amplifying a learned article that he published in 1995, Thiede has marshaled his arguments in a new book called Eyewitness to Jesus (Doubleday; 206 pages; $23.95), written with Matthew d'Ancona, a deputy editor and political columnist at London's Sunday Telegraph. As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the 1st century. A second clue to the manuscript's origins is its format. The three fragments are from a codex, a primitive kind of book...
BOOKS . . . GO AND TELL PHARAOH: "It takes only a glance at the rev. Al Sharpton to know that he is a man of considerable heft," says TIME's Jack White. "What the rotund rabble rouser would like you to conclude from his autobiography (Doubleday; 270 pages; $23.95), is that he is also a fellow of considerable substance." With the aid of his collaborator, Anthony Walton, he casts himself as a sort of 'Sharpton Lite.' He writes with calculated candor about aspects of his life that can be counted on to spark empathy -- for instance, his early career as a traveling...
...EVERY GROWN WOman there is an inner teenage girl--an awkward, dissatisfied someone who longs to be a more alluring someone else. This sadly enduring truth is explored with affecting accuracy in Emerald City (Doubleday; 178 pages; $22.50), a collection of short stories by Jennifer Egan, whose first novel, The Invisible Circus, was published last year to critical praise and encouraging sales...
...Martha's Vineyard. Brown is her word, used carefully and with mild amusement, because among the Massachusetts resort island's summering black aristocracy, light has always been right, and shadings of color are measured with precision. When West was a child, as she relates in The Richer, the Poorer (Doubleday; 254 pages; $22), her new collection of stories and reminiscences, her extended family included cousins "pink and gold and brown and ebony," and her light-skinned, lighthearted mother used to say, "Come on, children, let's go out and drive the white folks crazy...
...calls to autograph pilgrims at her front door, pausing in a phone conversation with a reporter. "Now, dear, where were we? Children. Yes, I should have had a dozen, but I couldn't have one. Children like me; I'm about their size.") Jacqueline Onassis, an editor at Doubleday and a summer resident of Martha's Vineyard, read the old writer's short pieces in the Vineyard Gazette, the island's weekly newspaper. She took to visiting West each Monday, and egged her on to finish a long-stalled second novel. When The Wedding (Doubleday; 240 pages...