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Title: well worth reading
Review: Well worth reading for the history and scholarship that it contains.Spong goes to great lengths to explain the "midrash" method of Jewish thought and writing that they used to understand the present in reference to the past - everything gets repeated in a big cycle - everything old is new again.along the way, he states again and again that the bible is not to be taken literally, and that such things as the virgin birth, miracles and physical resurrection never really happened...in a time when people believed in magic & miracles, of course they would interpret things that way, but that doesn't make them real. His main effort is to understand what really happened, and what caused people to see things the way they did.he also explains how & why the myths & legends surrounding JC got started - good stuff- (note that hard cover copies are still available at a reasonable price)
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