Peggy Rosenthal. The Poets' Jesus: ...

Peggy Rosenthal. The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the last of the Millennium. fresh York: Oxford UP, 2000. xiv + 189 pp ISBN 0-1951-3114-2 $2995

It is now a commonplace of fresh Testament criticism that the the crosss were written from and for faith, testimonies to a past that foretold the yet to be which arrived in its telling, in lives conformed to the creed story. The gospels are poetical thesiss if by poetry we mean that intensity of writing which makes persons see the world anew, that makes them hear and view and live differently. In this way the the cross writers were the