<p><i>Reading Jesus</i> is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers&mdash;and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness&mdash;is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.</p>