Tecoyah (and anyone else who is interested in a different perspective),
If you are truly that familiar with the Bible, I think you might find this book interesting:
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by John Spong.
From one of the reviews on Amazon.com:
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Why did Mark, Matthew, Luke and John describe Jesus as they did? Were they simply under such euphoric idealism that they ignored reality, inventing stories that defy physical reality, acting as deception? This is not the case. And since this is not the reason, then why such miraculous stories of those such as a transfiguration and temptations by the Devil in the desert? There is an amazing answer that was formulated from a series of attempts by various theologians, B.W. Bacon, Austin Farrer, later scrapped, until Michael Goulder's thesis and later, John Shelby Spong's continuation of Goulder's analysis. (cont.)
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