Displacing Jesus

Displacing Jesus studies the inner workings of Thomas Jefferson''s editing and shortening of the Gospels of the New Testament, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. It uncovers the immanent moves of his editorial project and shows how he makes judgments on what to include and exclude from the Gospels. As the book analyzes Jefferson''s gospel, it reconstructs his cut-and-paste project as a disp...