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Book Reviews : The Wandering Magician

Jesus by Lucas Grollenberg (SCM Press, LI-95, pp. 125) does not by its title awaken great expectations. Certainly the subject could hardly be more important, but is there room for still another book about Jesus’? John Bowden, a distinguished translator, apparently thinks so for he has felt it worth while to provide his time and skill. Many thousands of readers in Holland must think so too, because the original Dutch edition ran into eight reprintings between 1974 and 1978. And indeed it proves to be a most impressive book. The author is a Dutch Dominican whose biblical atlas is widely known. He fully accepts the findings of modern NT scholarship, and is more concerned to present the significance of Jesus in modern concepts and terms than merely to repeat ancient formulas. The result is a fresh, frank, compelling assessment of Jesus, understood as the