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I thus found extremely useful the video Hemant Mehta shared recently, featuring one Jewish atheist\u2019s account of the story of Jesus as she has been able to piece it together from \u201choliday specials and the trailer to The Passion of the Christ.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2BrZXmu8AGE<\/a>\n

Thank you, Jamie Bernstein, for sharing this<\/a>! I hope that others who teach classes like the one I teach on the historical figure of Jesus at Butler University will find this useful as they reflect on matters of prior knowledge and general cultural familiarity.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"