![]() ![]() ![]() Still more about Jesus than anyone else, really. “This is Not a Book about Jesus,” however, is what I eventually called the Introduction, where I was most direct about my subject: “f Jesus had been the kind of person who had neighbors, which by all accounts he very much wasn’t, this would be a book about them.” Still not very direct. ![]() This, I believed, would make my intentions as plain as possible while also playfully capitalizing on what writers and publishers hope “Jesus” in a title does for books in America: sell them. This possibility so enthralled and amused me that one early idea for the book’s title was simply: This is Not a Book about Jesus. And yet throughout the book and even with the graphic design of the hardcover’s dust jacket - featuring the cutout shape of an ascending Christ against a Galilean landscape - I insisted that mine was not a book about Jesus. I arranged for a few research assistants.Įarly in the planning and in my correspondence with my editor, we referred to this project as “The Jesus Book.” Its release was scheduled to correspond with the following Easter. ![]() As sometimes happens, the book came about because a publisher, knowing both my previous writing about Christianity and my work as a historian (albeit of American slavery), reached out and asked if I might be interested. A FEW YEARS AGO I wrote a book about daily life in first-century Palestine. ![]()
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