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The Jesus Papers: Exposing The
Greatest Cover-Up In History
Author: Michael Baigent
Binding: Hardcover, 336 Pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (March 2006)
ISBN: 0060827130
Price: RM89.90
Synopsis
What if everything you think you know
about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent reveals the truth
about Jesus's life and crucifixion. Despite -- or rather because of -- all the
celebration and veneration that have surrounded the figure of Jesus for
centuries, Baigent asserts that Jesus and the circumstances leading to his death
have been heavily mythologized.
As a religious historian and a leading expert in the field of arcane knowledge,
Baigent has unequaled access to hidden archives, secret societies, Masonic
records, and the private collections of antiquities traders and their moneyed
clients. Using that access to full advantage, Baigent explores the religious and
political climate in which Jesus was born and raised, examining not only the
conflicts between the Romans and the Jews, but 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 his early years. Baigent
also uncovers the inconsistencies and biases in the accounts of the major
historians of Jesus's time, including Josephus, Pliny, and Tacitus. The enduring
influence of these accounts in forming our most common conceptions of Jesus
reveals that spin is not a new phenomenon.
Taking us back to sites that over the last twenty years he has meticulously
explored, studied, and in some instances excavated for the first time, Baigent
provides a detailed account of his groundbreaking discoveries, including many
never-before-seen photos. The evidence he has uncovered has lead 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, based as it is upon
the assumption of Jesus's divinity. Ultimately, his investigation raises the
hope that we may gain a new understanding of Jesus
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