Why read The Shadow of the Galilean?

Book cover of The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form

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First published in 1987 by Fortress Press, this 20th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller includes a new Afterword from the author. Here, in narrative form, is an account of the activity of Jesus of Nazareth, scrupulously constructed so that it does not undercut the insights of New Testament scholarship.…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Shadow of the Galilean as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paula Gooder

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This is a book that captured my imagination about thirty years ago. It uses New Testament scholarship to reconstruct and imagine what it might have been like to live in Judah and Galilee at the time of Jesus but never to have met him in person—hence the title the Shadow of the Galilean. It was the first book I’d come across that used scholarship to imagine what it was actually like to live then. I’ve been thinking about that book ever since and it was what inspired me to write my book.

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