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A SPECTATOR'S GUIDE TO JESUS: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAN FROM NAZARETH, John Dickson (Sydney: Blue Bottle Books, 2005), pp 160,522.95.
The fillip for this small volume has been the popularity of both Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. As an historian, Dickson wishes to address the question: What has the historical Jesus have to do with the Jesus of contemporary imagination?
This work is a brief summary of Dickson's The Christ Files: how historians...