Shadow Of Galilean

The Shadow of the Galilean is the quest of Jesus come to life in a narrative form by Gerd Theissen. The story dated back in time of the Palestine, Romans, and Greeks. The main character was a Jewish man named Andreas who was imprisoned by the roman for conspiration against Pilate. He was giving the choice between being prosecuted and being an informant for the romans. He could not see himself betraying his people but did not want to die either, since Andreas could not come to a decision, he slept and dreamed; in his dream, he was standing in front of Pilate who was dressed in his purple striped toga. Pilate kept repeat “I’m not inhuman, I’m not a beast.”(Theissen p.25) While he kept repeating the same phrase, his features tuned into a caricature which mean he turned into a parody of what he was saying. But then the beast started nipping at Andrea’s feet. He could not move to save his life. “it’s paws touch my knees, and then it reared up to seize my throat. But then suddenly winced, grinned, and grew small, whimpered and writhed into dust.” (Theissen p. 25)

After waking up from his slumber, he made the decision to gather information for the

The story gives an edge the bible does not give in the book of Mark. In the book of Mark, the life of Jesus was half told compare to the Shadow of the Galilean, for it gives more details and the work of Jesus was affecting people that do not believe him to be the messiah and just prophet, and even portray John the Baptist as prophet. Jesus was not just a character that today’s scholars can try to place into something instead just believing the evidence. It almost as Theissen though Jesus was a wandering charismatic and with his followers are homeless and abandon their families to wonder the