Rebecca Denova is assistant professor of religious studies at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, and adjunct professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
By John Dominic Crossan, The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus. (HarperSanFrancisco, 653 pp.)
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