Interesting

This was pretty interesting, about the bits that were left out of the official bible, and how they were recovered centuries later. Best bit was the non-canonical gospel concerning Jesus as a murderous little boy. He had definite Prince Joffrey vibes! Those gospels trying to explain away inconvenient elements like Jesus's brothers and the overwhelming likelihood that Jesus's father would have been his mother's husband were also interesting. Had to groan about the guy who came into possession of a centuries-old document and decided to freeze it, destroying the binding. The author's assertion that the fanciful elements of the non-canonical gospels make them unlikely to be true was interesting, since that would only be the case if you assume that none of the supernatural stuff about Jesus was true to begin with. If he really was the son of God, then surely nothing would be off the table, however fantastical. Bit weird to have a book by a male English author read by an American female narrator, I thought. You want the narrator to be as close to the author's voice as possible, unless e.g. it's a novel with a female protagonist. But she reads it well.

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