Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in guayaquil”. Today it says “author and scholar”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Benjamin Urrutia (1950-), international author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil , Ecuador .1Urrutia co-authored, with Guy Davenport , The Logia of Yeshua (1996), which collected what they consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus ' mission to be that of a leadership role in the "Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression." Author of Slanted Gloria .2Contributor to the Writings of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Utah Historical Encyclopedia, and other scholarly endeavors. v t e See article "Jesus as a Leader of Nonviolent Resistance."3
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Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950 in Guayaquil , Ecuador ) is an author and scholar .According to the Mormon Literature Database , Urrutia is "the only LDS Basque Israeli American anthropologist , linguist , and science fiction writer in the universe." With Guy Davenport , Urrutia edited The Logia of Yeshua , which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus ' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources.Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission as a leadership role in the " Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".Benjamin Urrutia from Mormon Literature & Creative Arts (hosted by BYU )
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Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950 in Guayaquil , Ecuador ) is an author and scholar. With Guy Davenport , Urrutia edited The Logia of Yeshua , which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission as a leadership role in the " Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950) is an author and scholar. With Guy Davenport , Urrutia edited The Logia of Yeshua , which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus ' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission as a leadership role in the " Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Ecuadorian-born Israeli author and scholar Benjamin Urrutia (born January 24, 1950) is an author and scholar. With Guy Davenport , Urrutia edited The Logia of Yeshua , which collected what Urrutia and Davenport consider to be Jesus ' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission as a leadership role in the " Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".
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born in guayaquil
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author and scholar
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