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August 01, 2013

Behold the Man

August 01, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The meek and peaceful Jesus has become the standard Christian image of the Messiah. Religious scholar Reza Aslan's controversial new book shatters that image and replaces it with something very different: a violent revolutionary who came not to bring peace but a sword.

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August 01, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life, Literary Criticism, History, Politics & History
A Marginal Jew, Albert Nolan, and Future of Islam, August 2013, bart ehrman, Book Review, Craig Keener, evolution, fiction, From Jesus to Christ, Jesus, Jesus Before Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Joel Carmichael, John Dominic Crossan, John Meier, literary criticism, No god but God: The Origins, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Paul Fredricksen, Reza Aslan, Steve Donoghue, The Death of Jesus, The Historical Jesus, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
November 30, 2012

Entitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess

November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?

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November 30, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life, Fiction, Literary Criticism
A Clockwork Orange, A Dead Man in Deptford, A-D-, Anthony Burgess, Behold the Man, Christopher Biggins, Christopher Marlowe, December 2012, Don Camillo, Far Tortuga, fiction, Franco Zeffirelli, Giovannino Guareschi, God Knows, Godspell, gore vidal, Hamlet, historical fiction, I Claudius, I Judas, James Joyce, James Michener, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Heller, Julian, Kirk Mitchell, Lincoln, literary criticism, Man of Nazareth, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Moorcock, Nothing Like the Sun, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Orlando, Paris Review, Peter Matthiessen, Quo Vadis, Review, Robert Graves, Salman Rushdie, shakespeare, Stanley Kauffmann, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Donoghue, Stuart Cooper, Suso Cecci D'amico, Taylor Caldwell, The Kingdom of the Wicked, The Satanic Verses, virginia woolf
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