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William Collins
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“Christmas Trees” from New and Collected Poems 1952-1992 by Geoffrey Hill. Copyright © 1994 by Geoffrey Hill. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and the author. All rights reserved.
The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ by Daniel Boyarin. Copyright © 2012 by Daniel Boyarin. Reprinted by permission of The New Press.
“Triduum” from A Little Book of Hours by John F. Deane (Manchester, England: Carcanet, 2008.) By permission of the author.
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For Annie
The present life of man, O King, seems to me like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the great mead-hall wherein you sit at supper in winter, with the warm fire ablaze, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, once more into the dark winter.
So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new teaching contains something more certain, it seems justly deserving to be followed.
—A chief counselor to Anglo-Saxon king Edwin in 6271
Contents
Copyright
INTRODUCTION: Christ Actually
CHAPTER TWO: The First Holocaust
THE TEMPLE AS THE CAUSE OF THE GOSPEL
CHAPTER THREE: The Jewish Christ
