What Jesus did.(The Reader Replies)(Letter to the editor)

American Scholar | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

I have long admired the scholarship of Garry Wills, but I must protest his article in the SCHOLAR (Spring 2006) taken from his new book.

He is in good company in seeking to forget the historical Jesus. The process began very early with Paul of Tarsus, who invented his own Jesus, never having met the real one. It continued with the writers of the Gospels who managed to ignore Jesus' brother James of Jerusalem, who led the earliest Christians. The Church eventually considered those who knew Jesus best as heretical. Marcion also knew nothing about Jesus but thought he ...

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