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Title: A flawed attempt to make history more readable.
Review: I was disappointed with this book. The admittedly clever techniques of trying to explain early Christianity through the notes of time travelers, a television script, make believe letters between early Christians, and critiques of these techniques from "colleagues" simply didn't work for me.Don't get me wrong, there is obviously solid scholarship behind this unique presentation. The information presented is very interesting but the method of story telling gets in the way. The author is a academic and not a novelist. The contrived nature of the novel-like elements detracted from the history being presented.The book did add to my historical understanding of the development of Christianity, but I would not wish to read another work of scholarship written in a similarly "innovative" style
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