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Ladataan... Jesus the magician (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1978; vuoden 1993 painos)Tekijä: Morton Smith
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. If Jesus was not divine, I think he was very probably the kind of religious charlatan depicted by Smith, not the reformist Unitarian rabbi imagined by many modern intellectuals. Smith has, I think, a very good understanding of the atmosphere of popular religion in the time of Jesus. However, I must admit I find Smith's parallels with Egyptian magic much less close than Smith believes. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news, and working miracles, Smith asserts that this truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather unsettling. The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who did not believe him. He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions. What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by the term "magician? Who were the other magicians, and how did their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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If the book has any weakness, it is that it never answers the questions of whether or not Jesus was a magician or, more importantly, of what the difference between magic and religion is, precisely. The reader, however, will be in a better position to answer this question for himself when he has read it.
A bonus to reading this book is that Smith has done two very illuminating things. He has explained a great deal about what magic is in general, and he has reconstructed the world of magic in Jesus' era in particular. There was, for example, a social hierarchy among magicians. The magi whom Matthew tells us came to see the new-born Jesus represented the highest class of magicians. The "go-es" or itinerant street magician, was what Jesus was accused of being, and it was truly an insult.
My favorite insight from reading this book is that I understood for the first time why a magic spell can take a very long time or a very short time. It is because there are two stages to a magic spell, preparation and execution. A magic spell is like a computer program. Setting up a spell is like writing the code for the computer. Once the spell has been "encoded," a word or phrase can now set it in motion, just as a single key stroke, or combination of a few strokes, can be used to set off an elaborate computer program. ( )