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By Lena Einhorn

ISBN-10: 1599211483

ISBN-13: 9781599211480

Initially released in Swedish below the name: Vad hande pa vagen until Damascus:
Pospaning efter den vefglike Jesus fron Nasaret.

Lena Einhorn, 2006, What occurred at the highway to Damascus?

Translated via Rodney Bradbury.

Filmmaker and doctor Lena Einhorn makes use of all her medical abilities to explain the genuine tale concerning the historic Jesus, altering, maybe irrevocably, the learn of recent testomony background and the way we see the courting among Jesus and the apostle Paul.

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Joining the pantheon of books concerning the ancient Jesus comes one written by means of a filmmaker, no longer a theologian. Einhorn, who has produced documentaries and have motion pictures (Loving Greta Garbo ), writes in a method that's certainly cinematic: no dry, dusty stroll via background right here. relatively, Einhorn provides info as if she have been writing a secret. step by step, beginning with the query of even if Jesus ever existed, she brings jointly the entire identified (and little-known) clues concerning the Jesus tale and follows them to what she reveals a logical conclusion--that Jesus and Paul have been one and an analogous. this is often, by means of some distance, the weakest a part of the ebook, with gaping holes within the most blatant of its enumerated conclusions. To her credits, Einhorn offers the arguments for and opposed to her thesis, however the latter instead of the previous are inclined to convince readers. That acknowledged, this Swedish import does a striking activity of pulling the facts jointly and providing it in a manner that are supposed to garner an outstanding bite of the doubtless insatiable Da Vinci Code viewers. Ilene Cooper

Review
"What occurred at the street to Damascus is as exciting as against the law novel. Clue after clue is published with no your ever with the ability to determine the answer to the riddle." Ulrika Kärnborg in Dagens Nyheter
"Intriguing, nerve-racking, and regularly compelling: fascinating since it is a theological mystery; nerve-racking since it exhibits how malleable the small quantity of facts we now have is; and compelling since it comprises new, powerful arguments approximately Jesus, arguments that current it unavoidably as a historical past to be taken seriously." Theodore Riccardi, Professor Emeritus, division of center East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

"I had no longer learn many pages sooner than i used to be hooked. identified and unknown evidence, assumptions and tricks are combined with one another in a fashion that brings out new perspectives....But to the extract the information is something, to meld it into fascinating examining is one other. the result's magnificent." ok. G. Hammar, Archbishop (Lutheran) of Sweden 1997-2006 in Dagnes Nyheter

"As fascinating as a mystery. One reveals oneself apparently and impatiently turning the pages, thinking about the place she is going to take you next." Christer Hugo in Smalandsposten

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In the year 324 CE, Eusebius wrote a work in which he de­ scribes Josephus' writings. In this he quotes Testimonium Flavianum al­ most word for word as it is known today40 But Origen, who wrote almost one hundred years earlier, in 240 CE, names the first consid­ erably shorter reference-that about Jesus' brother James-but fails to mention Testimonium Flavianum entirely. And as if that wasn't enough, Origen wrote in one text "this writer [Josephus], although not believing in Jesus as Christ . :· and in another text " .

But in the case of the gospels, they concern the memory of a single person and his immediate surroundings. As we have already noted, the four gospels have a great deal in common, especially the first three: Matthew, Mark, and Luke. But because they are so similar, and evidently have their roots in the same sources-and each other-there is reason to prick u p one's ears when one comes across differences. Because there are dif­ ferences. And they mean something. To start with, the four gospels are partly directed towards different readers.

It is now that Yosef makes his fateful decision (he describes himself in the third person) : 'And now," said he, "since it is resolved among you that you will die, come on, lei us commit our mutual deaths to determination by lot. " 36 The others accept Yosefs decision, they are even overjoyed by it "for they thought death, if Josephus might but die with them, was sweeter than life:' So they start to draw lots, Yosef as well as the others. And 28 T H E J ESUS MYSTERY the collective suicide begins-the man who last held the sword, is next in turn.

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