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Robert J. Hutchinson is an award-winning travel writer and the author of numerous books of popular history, including What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination (Regnery, 2020), What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler (Regnery, 2020),The Dawn of Christianity (Thomas Nelson, 2017), Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth (Thomas Nelson, 2015), The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible (Regnery, 2008), When in Rome: A Journal of Life in Vatican City (Doubleday, 1998) and The Book of Vices: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales (Putnam, 1996). Raised in the Pacific Northwest, Hutchinson attended a Jesuit high school and university, earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy, moved to Israel to learn Hebrew, and earned a graduate degree in New Testament Studies. He writes primarily about recent developments in Biblical studies and archaeology, cultural conflicts in U.S. society, and philosophy. In his recent books, Hutchinson demonstrates that recent discoveries in archaeology and New Testament studies are challenging many of the older ideas about Jesus of Nazareth and early Christianity that have dominated academic scholarship for more than a century. He claims that these older ideas – for example, that Jesus believed the world would end in his lifetime or that he was really a violent revolutionary – have been largely set aside by top secular scholars working in the world’s best universities. Instead, Hutchinson says, the evidence increasingly shows that Jesus of Nazareth was very close to being just as the Gospels describe him: a fiery, courageous, charismatic populist who drew crowds by the tens of thousands and electrified all of Israel with his strange and exhilarating announcement of God’s kingdom in their midst. Hutchinson’s even-handed and fair approach to these scholarly controversies has been widely praised by both religious and secular experts, including N.T. Wright, Craig Evans, Rodney Stark, Darrell Bock, Michael Bird, James Tabor and James Crossley. In addition to his research on Jesus of Nazareth, Hutchinson claims that the unusual philosophical ideas found in the Bible provided the intellectual foundation for western civilization and the development of experimental science... and argues that much-maligned Biblical laws actually paved the way for limited government and the recognition of universal human rights. For the past 30 years, Hutchinson has worked as a full-time professional writer, contributing essays and syndicated columns to such conservative outlets as Fox News, Christianity Today and Human Events. An avid traveler, Hutchinson is also the former managing editor of Hawaii Magazine and the former Hawaii Bureau Chief for The Hollywood Reporter. He lectures on nonfiction writing techniques at business seminars and writing conferences in Europe and the United States. Hutchinson describes himself as “an enthusiastic if not very successful student of foreign languages,” and says he speaks a little Hebrew and French, beginning German and “ten words of Greek.” He lives with his wife and children in a small seaside village on the west coast. Praise for Searching for Jesus: "This entertaining book, setting its scenes with plenty of local color, demonstrates just how far the modern skepticism about Jesus has overreached itself. Questions remain, but Robert Hutchinson reminds us that we do not need to be browbeaten by those who say that only negative answers are available." - N. T. Wright, Ph.D., University of St. Andrews "Robert Hutchinson's Searching for Jesus reviews the evidence, the theories, and the proposals in an informed and engaging way. Students and veteran scholars alike will profit from reading this well written book. And don't skip the footnotes; they are a trove of famous quotations from primary and secondary literature." - Craig A. Evans, Ph.D., John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins, Houston Baptist University Praise for The Dawn of Christianity: "Biblical historian Robert Hutchinson (Searching for Jesus) draws on personal knowledge of the Holy Land as well as historical sources to craft a 'narrative retelling of the founding' of Christianity, as documented by the New Testament and complementary secondary sources. Like a biography, the book paints a convincing portrait of Jesus... The book inspires fresh wonder at how quickly this new religion took off." - Publisher's Weekly

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  Catholics with Dirty Faces

  By Robert Hutchinson

  Feb. 28, 2025

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  DIY Exercise Equipment With Wood – Mother Earth News

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  Jan. 22, 2025

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  Trump Extends An Open Hand to Rank and File Democrats

  By Robert Hutchinson

  Oct. 30, 2024

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