13 FEBRUARY 1971, page 25

The Gospels And The Professor

Sir: The review of Dr Dodd's book The Founder of Christianity was most penetrating. Who could better review such an essay in biblical history than the Regius Professor of Modern......

Sir: I Feel Compelled To Make My Protest Against The

cover contents of your last week's issue (23 Janu- ary) which I find revolting and infinitely distressing. My family has taken the SPEC- TATOR for about forty years and this......

Pure Tobacco

Sir: Mr John Lowe's questions (`Pure tobacco', Letters, 30 January) may be answered as follows: 1. Paragraph 3.9 of the report (p. 38) states that chemicals such as nitrates,......

Sir: Hugh Trevor-roper (23 Jan- Uary), Calls The Gospels...

rubbish'. What a pity that such a good historian should take such an unhistorical view! Any fair-minded reading of the New Testament as a whole must see that many things......

Strikfeldt Smear

Sir: I apologise for my delay, due to sickness and other preoccup- ations, in replying to the Peter Reddaway and George Katkov cor- respondence. At the risk of being again......

Sir: But For The Postal Strike I Should Have Written

this letter earlier. As it is, however, I have had opportunity to formulate care- fully my thoughts and weigh my words. I have been a reader of the SPECTATOR for many years and......