Oct 29, 2009 — See Newsweek
The novelist and literary critic Mary Gordon loves the story of the prodigal son, for she is a Catholic in her bones. ...As the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill religious studies professor Jonathan Boyarin explained to me, "not believing in the Messiah-hood of Jesus has for centuries been ingrained as the central point that separates Jews from Christians. And that's precisely the 'good news' that for almost 2,000 years, as Jews generally perceive it, Christians have been trying to stuff down their throats."
