The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christis the remarkable newpiece of fiction from best-selling and famously atheistic author PhilipPullman. By challenging the events of the gospels, Pullman puts forwardhis own compelling and plausible version of the life of Jesus, and inso doing, does what all great books do: makes the reader ask questions.InPullman’s own words, “The story I tell comes out of the tension withinthe dual nature of Jesus Christ, but what I do with it is myresponsibility alone. Parts of it read like a novel, parts like history,and parts like a fairy tale; I wanted it to be like that because it is,among other things, a story about how stories become stories.”Written with unstinting authority,The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christis a pithy, erudite, subtle, and powerful book by a controversial andbeloved author. It is a text to be read and reread, studied andunpacked, much like the Good Book itself.