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Title: Why'd he bother?
Review: It is hard to find any compelling reason for Mailer to have written this book. There is little that is imaginative or new in this telling of the Jesus myth. Reading this, one would believe that scholars have discovered nothing about the life of Jesus since the gospels were written. Mailer's Jesus does nothing more than parrot the words put in his mouth by the gospel writers. Why not create a Jesus that would have been a product of his times, not one who is 20th century creation? Such a creation would have been worthy of Mailer's considerable talent. This "Gospel" can safely be ignored.
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