Robin Helweg-Larsen

I was raised on Eleuthera in the Bahamas by my Danish father and English mother.

I had ten years of boarding school: De Carteret in Jamaica, and Stowe in England. As the schools were nominally Anglican (i.e. Church of England) they taught religion - the life of Jesus without reference to the Roman occupation of Palestine. They also taught history - including the history of the Roman Empire, without reference to the life of Jesus.

I wanted to contextualize Jesus within the ongoing uprisings against the Roman Occupation. The result is THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE ROMANS, in which his words and actions are shown as those of a religious 1st century Jew, reported on to Pontius Pilate by a Roman spy.

It is rather as if a modern Westerner had infiltrated Al Qaeda and befriended Osama Bin Laden...