Jesus, Death, and Taxes: My Review of Killing Jesus - Le Donne

My review of O'Reilly's Killing Jesus for the Los Angeles Review of Books is now posted. Linked here.

Excerpt:

"Set against this Sallmanesque portrait of Jesus, almost every person associated with Rome is painted with a black hat. Caesar Tiberius has created a depraved society from the top down. The “moral depravity of Tiberius cannot help but seep into the fiber of even the most far-flung province, causing an erosion of discipline and justice.” Thus the authors apply a large dose of pop psychology to Tiberius and set Jesus in a country choked by evil." 

-anthony




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Anthony Le Donne (PhD) is the author of The Wife of Jesus: Ancient Texts and Modern Scandals.