Jesus’ Obituary

Jesus’ Obituary October 20, 2013

Tom Verenna shared a really interesting assignment from a class about the historical Jesus that he is taking. It asked students to write an obituary for Jesus. He did something even more interesting with it, creating an epitaph on the model of ancient funerary inscriptions, rather than a modern-day type of obituary.

I won’t summarize it here, since I think it would be interesting for people to try to come up with their own before doing so. But after you do, or even before, you should definitely click through to read it. And then we can talk about points of agreement, disagreement, similarity, and/or difference, if you like.

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