Who Was Jesus?: A Conspiracy in Jerusalem

About this book

Very little is known about the life of Jesus. The gospels were written to propagate an image of Jesus as the prophesied Messiah and give few details of his life. Moreover most of the fundamental tenets of Christianity are not derived directly from the gospels but from the teachings of St Paul. Between and indeed within these sources there are baffling inconsistencies. This book seeks as far as possible to uncover the historical figure of Jesus and to explore what it was about his teaching that created a dedicated and able following that propagated a religion in his name. It also traces the life and teachings of St Paul asks what Paul knew of the man Jesus and suggests that there may have been a conspiracy between Paul and Peter to disseminate a selective and distorted image of Jesus life character and teaching.