New book from Maurice Casey

[Burning one]

The purpose of this book is to engage with the historical Jesus from the perspective of an independent historian. I do not belong to any religious or antireligious group. I try to use evidence and argument to establish historically valid conclusions. I depend on the best work done by many other scholars, regardless of their ideological affiliation. I also make abundant use of one relatively recent discovery which should help us to go further than ever before in reconstructing the Jesus of history in his original cultural context. That is the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and above all the eventual publication of all those which are written in Aramaic, the language which Jesus himself spoke. In two complex technical books, I have shown how genuine sayings of Jesus, and the earliest narrative reports of his deeds, can be reconstructed in their original Aramaic versions in a manner unthinkable before the publication of the Aramaic scrolls

Shlama,

here's a *revised* reading of the above underlined for those here in the know:

"can be reconstructed in their original Aramaic versions in a manner unthinkable to Greek Primacists before the publication of the Aramaic scrolls."

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otherwise, it will be interesting to see his reconstructions, i'm sure!


Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy