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Raised in a secular jewish household in Connecticut, Lisa Miller rarely went to temple as a child, but she remembers savoring the great stories of the Hebrew Bible. "I loved them," she recalls. "They were so full of magic and adventure and families and inexplicable events." Later, in college at Oberlin, she took a course with the scholar L. Michael White entitled "The Life and Teachings of Jesus." It was, she says, "revelatory"—she found, as readers who spend time with Scripture in an analytical way do, that "each Gospel author had a slightly different purpose in telling his story, a different audience, came from at least a slightly different time."