Nobody writes about Jesus without having an axe to grind.
And thus I submit these…
MAN OF NAZARETH by Anthony Burgess- he wrote it while writing the screenplay for JESUS OF NAZARETH, but this is the POV of a skeptical contemporary admirer of JC. I was hoping that Burgess’ touch would result in “A Clockwork Jesus” but we weren’t that lucky L Alas, it’s out of print but I keep checking used bookstores. I did recently find his sequel KINGDOM OF THE WICKED (written while doing the A.D. miniseries screenplay).
and two perspectives from the same author decades apart-
as a right-wing Catholic in the 1950s, Taylor Caldwell wrote DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN, a novel about Luke the Physician, with a lot of Jesus flashbacks.
and as a religiously-disillusioned crotchety conservative mind-science reincarnationist in the late 1970s, she wrote with Jess Stearn, I, JUDAS- a novelized autobiography of one J. Iscariot…
I resonate with PHYSICIAN a lot more.
Both seem to be out of print.