an extensive study of Jewish
history and literature.
Bursting conventional re-
straints, these two writers deal
with their topic not as a theo-
Two able writers have colab- Robert Graves and Joshua Pod- logical work but as history, aim-
orated in writing "The Nazarene ro, are men of letters who have ing to describe the time and
Gospel Restol.ed" (published by a good background for researcn. place of Jesus.
Doubleday, 575 Madison, NY22) Graves is the author of several
Mr. Graves' thesis is that the
in which they prove that Jesus important works and Podro is a New Testament is often incon-
was a devout Jew. The authors, Hebrew scholar who has made sistent and frequently anachro-
nistic. the results partly of edi-
torial carelessness and partly
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of the overzealousness of those
commenators who, dissatisfied
with Christ's actual career, dis-
torted the Gospels to suit their
particular needs and the needs
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tellectually satisfying to those
;chosen students of law and the
; prophets for whom it was pri-
i marily intended. But Gentile
heretics pirated it, mistranslated
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it into pedestrian Greek, recast
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it, and then subjected it to a
century long process of emenda-
tion . .. Judged by Greek liter-
ary standards it is poor; by his-
torical standards, unreliable;
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and its doctrine is confused and
contradictory."
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restore the fragments and rec-
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tify the spirit of the Gospels, b
provide, insofar as he is able,
t through imaginative reconstruc-
tion and intensive research into
the Hebrew tradition, -a version
of the Gospels as they must have
been before their corruption.
! Briefly, this restoration proves
that Jesus was a devout Jew .
who belonged to a small apoc-
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took the Pharisaic attitude to-
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ed himself with God, and though
he performed certain faith cures
in God's name, he neither did
nor suffered anything that lay
outside of human experience.
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Granted that he was set apart
from his fellow Israelites when
John the Baptist chose him as
the person to whom the whole
corpus of Messianic prophecies
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The historic situation in which
this Jesus found himself, ac-
cording to Graves, was domi-
nated by Hillel. He asserts that
the doctrine of grace—the view
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that God's love redeems all and
that in this love and not in
obedience to retributive law man
finds his peace and salvation—,
originated in 'response to the
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Mosaic Law imposed. From Hillel
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first and then from Christ, he
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did not mark .a break with Juda-
ism, as Paul later argued, but
a revision of the Hebrew tradi-
tion that began of necessity
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among the Jews themselves, Mr.
Graves points out.
Mr. Graves' reconstruction be-
gins in a minute examination of
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and estimates the reception that
his own work is likely to get, he
sets down each New Testament
episode in all its versions, states
the contradictions that inevita-
bly arise among them, the ana-
chronisms and obvious distor-
tions, and then, through con-
stant reference to historical
sources, abetted by his own su-
perb historical imagination, re-
stores the Gospels to what he
thinks they must have been at
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the time of Christ.

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