Part I
In the final chapter of AHitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus, the main focus is on Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. The final chapter begins with norm returning to the Mount of Olives to relive Jesus’ final night with his disciples. Here Norm brings up the points of multiple attestation and embarrassment (231). He again brings up the fact that the gospels had to be drawing on historical memory when Jesus went to the hillside to pray. Also, early Christians wouldn’t want to invent a scene where it makes it look like Jesus’ disciples would have dozed off during his greatest hour of need. I found the part about the tomb the most interesting during this chapter.
Part II
Norm is comparing Jesus to a second David. He compares David’s grieving and asking God to remove his humiliation and to restore him to the throne (234) to Jesus asking him to remove the cup from him (236). That was interesting because it makes Jesus look like he’s terrified about his death where I always have pictured Jesus being calm about things and not having second thoughts about his death. Did Jesus want to become a king without struggle or death (237)? Norm also parallels Polycarp’s story to Jesus’ (238). God tells both how they will die, that they will be betrayed, they were both found in large upper rooms, and they both refuse to escape and say “God’s will be done” (238). These were just a few of the parallels that Norm uses. Polycarp was eager to die and believed that one innocent victim could save many (238). So with that being said, he was also like Jesus in that he believed with the death of one person many could in return be saved. There were tons of other stuff that I liked about this chapter, but one last thing I liked and that I’ve never heard talked about was how Jesus’ body may have been removed from his tomb and taken to another one. Could this be true? Instead of Jesus being resurrected could his body just have been moved? Through all of Norm’s travels he discovers that the Man who traversed the land and the One who strides in the Gospels has many faces.
In the final chapter of AHitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus, the main focus is on Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. The final chapter begins with norm returning to the Mount of Olives to relive Jesus’ final night with his disciples. Here Norm brings up the points of multiple attestation and embarrassment (231). He again brings up the fact that the gospels had to be drawing on historical memory when Jesus went to the hillside to pray. Also, early Christians wouldn’t want to invent a scene where it makes it look like Jesus’ disciples would have dozed off during his greatest hour of need. I found the part about the tomb the most interesting during this chapter.
Part II
Norm is comparing Jesus to a second David. He compares David’s grieving and asking God to remove his humiliation and to restore him to the throne (234) to Jesus asking him to remove the cup from him (236). That was interesting because it makes Jesus look like he’s terrified about his death where I always have pictured Jesus being calm about things and not having second thoughts about his death. Did Jesus want to become a king without struggle or death (237)? Norm also parallels Polycarp’s story to Jesus’ (238). God tells both how they will die, that they will be betrayed, they were both found in large upper rooms, and they both refuse to escape and say “God’s will be done” (238). These were just a few of the parallels that Norm uses. Polycarp was eager to die and believed that one innocent victim could save many (238). So with that being said, he was also like Jesus in that he believed with the death of one person many could in return be saved. There were tons of other stuff that I liked about this chapter, but one last thing I liked and that I’ve never heard talked about was how Jesus’ body may have been removed from his tomb and taken to another one. Could this be true? Instead of Jesus being resurrected could his body just have been moved? Through all of Norm’s travels he discovers that the Man who traversed the land and the One who strides in the Gospels has many faces.
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