Volume 33, Number 19 · December 4, 1986
A New New Testament
By J.M. Cameron
The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity
by Thomas Sheehan
Random House, 287 pp., $18.95
Thomas Sheehan has two topics. One is the development of historical criticism of the Bible, especially the New Testament and especially among Roman Catholic scholars in recent years. The other is the interpretation of the person and message of Jesus. The interpretation he advances is not implied by the results of historical criticism—implication is after all a very strong concept—but it seems to him a plausible account of what the person and message mean after criticism has done its purgative job.
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