I’ve been working for the past few minutes on removing verses from Jefferson’s Bible that can be construed as implicating the Jewish people or Jewish religious leadership in either alleged opposition or alleged conspiracy against the main figure of the Gospels and his followers.

What I realized, while whittling it down further, was just how much of a bitter dick (or a modern-day conspiracy-theorist) that Jesus sounded like (or was made to sound like by his biographers) when he started railing against the Pharisees and the religious leadership in Judaea. Furthermore, I can see how much easier it is to read Jefferson’s mashup/remix of the Gospels when you remove all of the supernatural crap (as Jefferson already did), tone down the easily-misconstruable criticism of Judaism as a religion of the period, and especially mute much of the obviously-opinionated anecdotes inserted by Jesus’ disciples. The latter two is exactly what I’m trying to do.

Basically, it’s an attempt to reduce the number of accusations of propheticide (prophet murder, or motivations towards such ends) uttered by Jesus’ earliest followers and biographers against the Jewish people’s religiocultural leadership, although, when rid of the persecution complex, the story eventually reads as more of a biography of a short-lived would-be messiah claimant and vengeful reformer (and even the reforms proposed by him don’t seem to be as significant in their severity as is claimed in normal versions and later appraisals of the New Testament).

I’ll probably post my revision at a later date. Seems like it’s still too big for Google Docs.