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Killing Jesus the bestselling blockbuster by Bill OReilly claims to be a purely historical account of the events in the life of Jesus leading up to his crucifixion New Testament scholar Robert M Price a member of the Jesus Seminar shows how unfounded this claim is in this critical review of OReillys work In fact he judges the book to be the number one source of misinformation on Jesus today Ignoring over one hundred years of New Testament scholarship OReilly and his coauthor Martin Dugard have produced what Price describes as a Christian historical thriller that plays fast and loose with the facts Price goes through the key events of Jesusrsquo later life as described in the gospels and retold in Killing Jesus painstakingly showing in each case what scholars know and donrsquot know Using humor down-to-earth analogies and witty sarcasmmdashnot unlike OrsquoReillyrsquos own interview stylemdashPrice makes it clear that OrsquoReillyrsquos book is more historical novel than a work of serious history By cobbling together the four gospel stories ignoring the contradictions and adding plenty of quasi-historical background embellishments OrsquoReilly and Dugard have created a good narrative that resonates with a lot of Christians Entertaining reading this may be but history it is notKilling History provides lay readers with an accessible introduction to New Testament scholarship while showing the many problems in OrsquoReillyrsquos book.
About the Author
Robert M. Price (Selma, NC), professor of scriptural studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is the editor (with Jeffery Jay Lowder) of The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave and the Journal of Higher Criticism. He is also the author of Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms; The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind; The Reason-Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? and many other works.
