ARTHUR McDERMOTT,
Sir, - In Patsy McGarry's article dealing with evidence for and against the Resurrection of Jesus, (Weekend, March 31st), I was surprised that no mention was made of a major work concerning this question.
This is the book, Jesus the Man, by the Australian academic and theologian, Barbara Thiering. Her researches, based on a study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christ's part in a radical movement in the Essene Community at Qumran, reveal the Christian message shorn of frills and recorded in the context of the religious, historical and political realities of the time.
These revelations do not detract from the supreme moral principles of Christianity as set down in visionary and allegorical form in the books of the
ARTHUR McDERMOTT,
New Testament. - Yours, etc.,
Villiers Square,
Limerick.