Ever since Alex Kaniamparambil, my countryman and good
friend, now living in the U.K., stopped publishing his e-magazine “Snehasandesham”
to which I used to contribute regularly, I have become intellectually lazy. I have
stopped putting pen to paper, an activity that gave both exercise and pleasure
to my depleting brain cells.
Well, I want to restart writing. What to write about is not
an issue, since the choice is limitless; what to choose to write about is more
vexing. I have started re-reading some books and often I am left with a
different perspective than what I originally held.
During the past Easter Week, I re-read parts of two books
that I hold in high esteem as far as depth of research and strength of evidence
are concerned. They are:
1. The Jesus Dynasty [The Hidden
History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity] by James D.
Tabor and
2. Jesus Who? [Myth vs. Reality in
the Search for the Historical Jesus] by Dr. James Gardner.
Please note that the three of us share the same first name ‘James’,
although that’s where the commonality ends!
For quite some time I have been pondering the question: Who is the founder of Christianity as a
religion?
What do you think?
What do you think?
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