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Caesar's Messiah
- The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus
- Narrated by: John Alan Martinson Jr.
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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Caesar's Messiah
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Publisher's Summary
Was Jesus the invention of a Roman emperor? The author of this ground-breaking book believes he was. Caesar's Messiah reveals the key to a new and revolutionary understanding of the origin of Christianity, explaining what is the New Testament, who is the real Jesus, and how Christ's second coming already occurred.
The clues leading to these startling conclusions are found in the writings of the first-century historian Flavius Josephus, whose Wars of the Jews is one of the only historical chronicles of this period. Closely comparing the work of Josephus with the New Testament Gospels, Caesar's Messiah demonstrates that the Romans directed the writing of both. Their purpose: to offer a vision of a "peaceful Messiah" who would serve as an alternative to the revolutionary leaders who were rocking first-century Israel and threatening Rome.
Similarly, Caesar's Messiah will rock our understanding of Christian history as it reveals that Jesus was a fictional character portrayed in four Gospels written not by Christians but Romans. This Flavian Signature edition adds Atwill's latest discoveries of numerous parallel events in sequence which ultimately reveal the identity of the true authors of the Gospels.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-12-2020
Fanciful
As Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman put it in his aptly titled blog post on the (then pending) release of Caesar’s Messiah: “More Conspiracy Nonsense”.
What struck me most at the conclusion of this book was not the compelling nature of Atwill’s arguments, but the absence of them.
Atwill’s “argument” is based on a mixture of coincidence and reading meaning into Biblical passages to uncover hidden “meanings” and “logic puzzles”. In other words, the same sort of mental gymnastics conspiracy theorist engage in.
Atwill’s argument is further undermined by a failure to acknowledge the well-established editorial work the Bible has undergone since its various components were written. These issues are then compounded with what can only be descried as a flawed understanding of probability.
All in all, I consider the book an imaginative work of fiction. Best to avoid if you’re looking for serious Biblical scholarship, but you might find it entertaining if you enjoy pulling apart conspiracy theories.
The narrator, who does an excellent job, is to be commended for seeing the project through.
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