The waggish and erudite Vidal's been reading again. Reading the scholarship about early Christianity and the writing of the gospels, to be precise. He's put the resulting knowledge together with an up-to-the-minute take on the old sf device of time travel and the conceit that first- and late-twentieth-century evangelists are pretty much alike--i.e., scrappy showbiz folks whatever their other agendas--to produce the gospel of St. Timothy. In his youth, Christians may recall, Timothy was the faithful companion to St. Paul. That youth is where his gospel begins; in fact, it begins with the primal Christian scene for the 15-year-old gentile--his circumcision in order to mollify the Jewish Christians, who look more than slightly askance at Paul's proselytizing, though of course they're happy to bank the gentile converts' money that Paul deposits with them in Jerusalem.
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