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What David Brooks and Bob Dylan teach Jews about heresy

(JTA) - "A Complete Unknown," the new Bob Dylan biopic set in the early 1960s, ends years before the singer's controversial "gospel" period. Starting with 1979's "Slow Train Coming," Dylan recorded three albums exploring his apparent embrace of Christianity. For his 1980 tour, he played gospel music exclusively.

It was a confusing time for Dylan's Jewish fans. As the movie suggests only obliquely, the guitar-carrying hitchhiker who tried to pass himself off as a former carnival barker was actually Bobby Zimmerman, a Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minnesota. As the New York Jewish Week once explained...

 

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