The Nazarene Gospel Restored

Robert Graves (1895-1985), poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. Athough he produced over 100 books he is perhaps best known for the novel I, Claudius (1934), The White Goddess (1948) and Greek Myths (1955). Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, South London. His father, Alfred Percival Graves, was a school inspector, and his mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, was a great-niece of the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1866). He was educated at Charterhouse, and awarded a B.Litt by St. John's College, Oxford after his return from World war I, where he served alsongside Siegfried Sassoon. Robert Graves died in 1985 in Deja, the Majorcan village he had made his home (with the exception of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War) since 1929.

Joshua Podro was born Joshua Podrushnik in Russia. After serving in the First World War and working as a journalist in New York he emigrated to England where he ran a press-cuttings agency. In 1936 he was elected one of the secretaries of the British section of the World Jewish Congress and in 1937 was a member of the Zionist Organisation Executive at the Twentieth Zionist Congress in Geneva. Joshua Podro was a distinguished scholar of Hebrew and Aramaic. After his death, his large library of Judaica was donated to Leo Baeck College. Joshua Podro was an expert on the Hebrao-Aramaic aspects of primitive Christianity. He also co-authored with Graves Jesus in Rome: a historical conjecture (1957).

John W. Presley is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Professor of English at Illinois State University. He has published almost forty pieces of scholarship on Robert Graves, beginning with his 1976 book The Robert Graves Manuscripts and Letters at Southern Illinois University. His main areas of interest are Graves's poetry and prose, his techniques of revision and composition, bibliographic issues, the reception of Graves's ideas and his popular works.