John Shelby Spong was born on June 16, 1931 in Charlotte, NC. He is a retired
Bishop of the Episcopal Church. He has written more than twenty books dealing
with liberal Christian theology. His books have sold well over a million copies.
This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop's Search for the Authentic Jesus was published in 1974.
The back cover describes the book as exploring ". . . Jesus under the light of the
Hebrew tradition into which he was born. Candid, personal, and soundly argued,
this is Spong's spiritual and intellectual pilgrimage to the
Christ he discovered in Jesus of Nazareth."