The Lives of Jesus

A Review of James Barker's Writing and Rewriting the Gospels

One of the benefits of being someone who keeps up with academic literature in biblical studies but is not actively working in the field—I don’t have a PhD, have no current plans to get one, and don’t publish academic tomes or articles for circulation and review by other academics, just long screeds on Substack—is that I’m free to really sit with the arg…