THE   HISTORICAL,   JEWISH   JESUS

THE  GHOST  IN  THE  GOSPELS

         

Welcome to a Web site by Leon Zitzer.

It’s a chance at a new beginning, I hope.                 

 

To contact author, email: luckyzee@earthlink.net

 

For a very brief introduction, go to MISSING THE OBVIOUS, the first essay listed below.  It will tell you why this Web site is here and what I have discovered (there’s one important piece right in the first paragraph).  It also gives a general sense of direction about the other essays.  

 

All material is copyright 1999 to 2003.  This site went online in March 2003. In May, I removed one essay and added GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS (described below), the first chapter of my book The Ghost in the Gospels.

 

 

Most of these essays are pretty short. Half are under 4,000 words. If you read only one, make it ZEFFIRELLI (4,000 words). That's the entire Web site in a nutshell. It tells you what is wrong with current scholarship by comparing it to Franco Zeffirelli's 1977 film on Jesus. The longest essay by far is the new one, CHAPTER 1 - GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS. There is a little unavoidable repetition of some points in the other essays, for which I apologize. Mostly, what it offers is a very focused tour of one aspect of the history of the English Bible that reveals how the academic quest for the historical Jesus got so screwed up.

 

References to other works are usually in parentheses in the texts of the essays rather than in footnotes.  In most cases, I identify these references by author, title or abbreviated title, and page number.  If you are familiar with this field, you will recognize most of the books.  If all this is new to you, see BIBLIOGRAPHY for full information on any book or article.

 

MISSING THE OBVIOUS

 

CH. 1 - GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

 

NEW STUFF

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

GHOSTS

 

RACISM IN GOSPEL SCHOLARSHIP

 

THEOLOGY IN HISTORY

 

BLAMING JEWISH LEADERS  

 

THE OFFENSIVE JESUS

 

RABBI JOSHUA

 

CHRISTIAN FEARS

 

JEWISH FEARS  

 

SCHWEITZER AND RENAN

 

ZEFFIRELLI  

 

GREGORY BAUM

 

“JEWISH VIOLENCE” (in Renan, Girard, etc.)  

 

Copyright 2003 L. Zitzer