Jesus for the Non-Religious by John Shelby Spong is $2.99 at most stores.
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The blurb is almost worthless, but here it is:
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The Pope Describes the Ancient Traditional Jesus; Bishop Spong Brings Us a Jesus Modern People Can Be Inspired By
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John Spong is a retired Episcopalian Bishop with fascinating and definitely non-orthodox ideas about Jesus and Christianity. I haven't read
Jesus for the Non-Religious yet, but I know from his other books that he doesn't accept the virgin birth as factual and views the resurrection as a spiritual event, rather than a physical reality. He bases his views on the insight that many of the New Testament stories amount to midrashic expansions on ones found in the Old Testament.