Author: Gerd Lüdemann
Gerd Lüdemann is professor of History and Literature of Early Christianity at the University of Göttingen, Germany, the director of the Institute of Early Christian Studies, and a fellow of the Jesus Project. The university has placed restrictions on his teaching due to his work in religious criticism. His new book is Intolerance and the Gospel (2007)
An Embarrassing Misrepresentation
Jesus of Nazareth, by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI (New York: Doubleday, 2006, ISBN 13: 978-0-38-552341-7) 374 pp. Cloth $24.95. In universities, future clerics, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, receive an introduction to historical criticism of the Bible. They learn the two languages in which it was composed—He brew and Greek—in order to read the …