“The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred ye...” — Jay Parini Quote

“The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.”

“If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.”

“In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.”

“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.”

“Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.”

“Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.”