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Podcast: Seeing Jesus with Paul Miller
Episode: [JESUS] 11. How Jesus Became a Missing Person, Part 2
Description: This episode continues our conversation about how Jesus became a missing person. "In classical Greek literature, people are defined by their central characteristic. Achilles in the Iliad is swift; he is swift Achilles. Everything he does is swift. Erich Auerbach* compares that to Jacob. If you look at Jacob, in the first part of his life he's just a scoundrel. He's crafty. If he was in the Iliad, he would be crafty Jacob. But, as Robert Alter* puts it, Jacob, like so many other Bible characters is a 'center of surprise.' Jacob actually changes." "Emoti...