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Harvey Cox, professor at Harvard Divinity School, played Pontius Pilate. His colleague, Allen Callahan, was the prosecuting attorney. Defending Jesus was Alan Dershowitz (yes, that Alan Dershowitz, from the teevee and the O.J. Simpson trial, though he's done other stuff, too). It was all part of a classroom exercize for Cox's and Callahan's "Contemporary Interpretations of Jesus" class, and was apparently cut short by the bell—a mock trial in more ways than one, apparently. (Other examinations of Jesus' trial include Craig S. Keener's article for Christian History and Darrell L. Bock's for Christianity Today.)

"I've gone to the police and they do nothing about [harassment]," Avi Mizrachi, leader of a messianic congregation in Tel Aviv, tells The Washington Times. "Once I had a landlord who was religious. He ordered me out of the house. And then he punched me. One of my friends, Yaacov, has been beaten on the streets for handing out tracts."

"It's unseemly and it shows a lack of respect," says Ener Glotario, priest at Barranquilla's Holy Trinity Church.

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