Liane Hansen continues her conversation with Father John eier (MY-er), author of "A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus" Doubleday). Meier's second volume, subtitled "Mentor, Message and Miracles," as just been published. He speaks to Liane about the difficulties in analyzing he sparse historical data about the life of Jesus, the role of John the Baptist n Jesus' life, what Jesus meant by the "Kingdom of God," and how an historian ust approach the miracles recorded in the gospels.
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