Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury

I am thrilled to see that my new "life of Jesus" has made its way to Athenaeum Boekhandel in the heart of Amsterdam. (Many thanks to Diederik Boomsma for the photo.)

My old TLS piece on Giorgio Agamben & Benedict XVI, in which a young Joseph Ratzinger argues that the Church is a "bipartite body" (corpus bipartitum), at once "dark and beautiful" (fusca et decora), & is quoted as having said: "The Antichrist belongs to the Church."

The life and death of an impoverished Galilean rabbi are described in a number of non-Christian texts from the first centuries of our era. What do they make of him? & what should we? -- My first for Unherd, in London. Out today; read here.

Despite some "flickers on the line" (his phrase), it was great to talk with Hugo Rifkind today on his Times Radio programme. He posed some big, thoughtful questions about my new Hurst book, I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus. Listen here (at 2.06.16 to 2.21.55).

I am very pleased to be joining Hugo Rifkind tomorrow on his Times Radio programme - at twelve noon in London - to share a few thoughts about my new Hurst book, I Judge No One, on the political life of Jesus. Do tune in.

I am very pleased to be returning to Eötvös Loránd University (the old University of Budapest) as visiting professor, next year, to teach "Mediterranean Wisdom in Christian Scripture" -- namely, 'pagan' lines quoted in the Pauline corpus & Acts of the Apostles. “Love of money is the root of all evils”, etc.

"[The history of Europe] assigns to us an inalienable heritage. Granted, we can deny it, but all the same it remains undeniable, & continues to dictate to us a certain reading of the world." Jacques Derrida, flysheet for Donner la mort (1999)

A hard book to write - but not, I hope, to read. I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus is in print today. Hurst is giving 25 percent off with the code JUDGE25 at the book's webpage.

I am delighted to be giving seminar in Milan on 12 December 2022, for those interested in ancient scepticism, Roman law, & early Christian anthropology. (Many thanks to Vito Limone.)

Very pleased that Oxford has announced the American publication of my new book in February 2023, with a good word from the incomparable Rowan Williams: "Radical, learned & inspiring, this is a very important study indeed for our times." See here.