Mrs Chandemagore brings us an helpful but also very personal view of the Judeo-Christian middle of the first century. She plays at will with the data of the biblical texts, apocryphal and other reconstituting its own puzzle of life at the time. However, when, and this happens from time to time, two pieces clearly does "not stick together", well, as it happens, a page is missing at this point in his "Life Jude". And what about the portrait it paints of Paul? Looks like Mrs. Chandannagar was a personal issue to settle with him. If this is the case, that's his business; but that did not authorize to unwrap the public square with such debauchery as pernicious as slanderous keys. In a word: if suddenly "magic wand" was postponed writing the "Life Jude" around the third century AD, there was a safe bet that this one does not appear in the top ten eligible books in the biblical canon ...
