Der Schatten des Galiläers (The Shadow of the Galilean / 1986 Theissen), novel

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Der Schatten des Galilaers: Historische Jesusforshung in erzahlender Form (English title: The Shadow of the Galilean) is a novel by Gerd Theissen.

Editions and translations

Published in Germany (1986). Translated into English (1987).

Summary

Theissen sends his fictional narrator Andreas, a wealthy young grain merchant, through the religious and political options available to a sensitive first-century Jew, and portraits Jesus as a Jewish teacher who was in partial sympathy with the Zealots.