Here is the seventh and final instalment of Richard Bauckham's assessment of the new book by Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson, The Lost Gospel.
Assessing the Lost Gospel
Part 7: Conclusion and Pauline Postscript
by Richard Bauckham
The above link is to a PDF of the article. A Word version is also available. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Part 5 is here. Part 6 is here.
I will gather all seven parts into a single post a little later on for ease of access.
I would like to thank Prof. Bauckham, on behalf of all the readers of this blog, for a masterful series of articles.
Richard you wrote:
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the church imaged as his bride, a common image in early Christian literature, beginning with the New Testament,"
To me J&A is about a Jewish writer struggling with the problem of that Jewish males faced living in Egypt. The writer recognised that there were some non-Jewish females who would be attractive to Jewish males. And provided the females converted to Judaism he saw no reason why they shouldn't marry a Jewish male.