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...offended when Christians eat pork," says Jacob Neusner. At least not usually. The brilliant--and none too patient--Jewish scholar does recall a religion conference where so much of the other white meat was served that he was reduced to a diet of hard-boiled eggs. One day on the food line something snapped, and he rhymed aloud, "I hope you all get trichinosis/And come to believe in the God of Moses." A fellow conferee instantly replied, "And if we don't get such diseases/Will you believe in the God of Jesus?" Neusner cackles. "That's an example...
Doggerel aside, Neusner, 74, lives by the story's moral: confrontation is part of his makeup, take it or leave it. One might expect many Christians to leave it. But at least one has not. In his new book, Jesus of Nazareth (Doubleday; $24.95), Pope Benedict XVI devotes 20 pages to A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, a 161-page grenade Neusner lobbed in 1993. In that volume, the professor (now at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and noncongregational rabbi projected himself back into the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found the Nazarene...
...Because of President Bush's leadership, an enemy of all Jews and an enemy of Israel was finally vanquished." NOAM NEUSNER, White House liaison, in an e-mail to Jewish community leaders, promoting a speech delivered by Bush in which he declared the world safer since Saddam Hussein's fall from power...
...surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of the Thomas and the hypothetical Q. The effect is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope at a vanishing Jesus. In his forthcoming The Gospel of Jesus (Westminster), William R. Farmer, professor emeritus of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University, decries the latest Q theory because it leads...
Alexandra Edsall '89, Elizabeth Ruddick '87, Jean Alonso '59, Lawrence Hage '56, Phyllis Brown, Glenn Hoffman, Naizhu Lui, Jack Brodeur, Joanne Neusner, Cliff Cohn, Laura Foner and Steve Neacham submitted an "admission to sufficient evidence." They agreed to perform 10 hours of community service, and the court will leave their cases open for three months...