What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent probes into the truth about Jesus's life and crucifixion.
As a religious historian, Baigent explores the religious and political climate in which Jesus was born and raised, and the strife within the different factions of the Jewish Zealot movement. He chronicles the migrations of Jesus's family, his subsequent exposure to other cultures and the events, teachings, and influences that were most likely to have shaped Jesus's early years. Baigent also uncovers the inconsistencies and biases in the accounts of the major historians of Jesus's time, revealing their enduring influence in forming our most common conceptions of Jesus.
Baigent provides a detailed account of his groundbreaking discoveries. The evidence he uncovers leads him to make shocking new assertions that threaten the conventional account of Jesus's life and death and shake the very foundation of Western thought. Ultimately, his investigation raises the hope that we may gain a new understanding of Jesus.
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Rating: - sometimes interesting sometimes spotty
Michael Baigent is a good story teller, and by now he knows to give the people what they want. What they seem to want most these days is conspiracy. Whether its all true is probably less important.
Baigent's main point, and he is not the only author to recently and persuasively (Baigent less persuasively than others, unfortunately) make it, is that Jesus may (a) not have been crucified at all, and/or (b) if he was, he did not in fact die on the cross, but was taken down alive and survived ... Read More
Rating: - The Jesus Paper's
I haven't read it yet. And probably won't right away cause i'm reading something else.
Rating: - Absolutely Ridiculous
To begin with, only a few chapters of this book even deal with the so-called crucifixion controversy. A large portion of this book deals with Baigent's own experiences crawling around caves and chapters literally go by without any mention or reference whatsoever to Jesus.
Secondly, Baigent's thesis is absurd. First, he states that he doubts that Jesus ever existed, then goes on to say that a replacement Jesus was crucified, then proposes that Jesus survived the crucifixion. His arguments are ... Read More
Rating: - Michael Baigent writes a fascinating book AGAIN!!
I have never been disappointed in buying a book written by Baigent. He always offers new insights and unexpected twists in his researches into the history of Christianity. I can think of no other author in the genre that can keep my interest for so long. Well done and well worth the price.
Rating: - Where's The Beef
The author spends too much time going through history and not enough time on his arguments. The final disc is the most interesting whereas the middle discs drag on.
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