been working on a reading of the Life of Jesus where the whole point is that he’s a naive hippie rabblerouser and the Roman...
been working on a reading of the Life of Jesus where the whole point is that he’s a naive hippie rabblerouser and the Roman Empire rightly kills him – publicly, humiliatingly – and his ultimate triumph is maturing and returning as the avatar of a civil-service-reformed neopolytheism
If I ever get to the biblical paraphrase might give that take one of the gospels and a few hints in later books to fluff it up