The CNN release that Paul Verhoeven, the Hollywood director and Jesus Seminar participant, has written a biography of Jesus that attributes Jesus' birth to a rape of Mary by a Roman soldier is old news. In dealing with the theories of Jim Tabor in Dethroning Jesus (pp. 178-79) I wrote the following about this claim that goes back to Celsus and the late second century.
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Verhoeven Claim about Jesus is Old News April 24.08
By bock - Posted on April 24th, 2008
Tagged: Verhoeven
