Review of Jesus and Paul

Thanks to David Mackinder for the link to this review from the Wall Street Journal of the American ABC special on Jesus and Paul:



The ABC of Holy Week

With "Jesus and Paul," Peter Jennings gets it right.

BY ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN

But this is a show for serious-minded viewers, scholarly yet respectful of belief, informative yet entertaining. It tells the story of Jesus and Paul in language believers and critics alike can recognize--indeed not too differently from the way it has been told for centuries.

Wilken comments on "the pronouncement of one 'expert' that Jesus was 'illiterate'" as a particularly egregious historical blunder. I am guessing, though, that this was something said by John Dominic Crossan who certainly claims this in his written work. While many would disagree with Crossan on this point, it's not a "historical blunder".