Jesus Demigod

In this book Mauro Biglino and Francesco Esposito examine the original texts on the life of Jesus, taking us on a provocative investigative journey into some of the most disquieting puzzles about this man. Privileging the textual facts in the earliest original accounts over the theological explanations intending to obscure those facts, Biglino and Esposito uncover the mystery of this puzzling figure who has for centuries remained shrouded in dogma. Why did Judas have to identify Jesus with a kiss? Do the Gospels themselves leave evidence that Jesus didn’t die on the cross but was instead saved by an ingenious plan? And what does the text itself actually say about the cloud that appeard in the Transfiguration and which ultimately carried Jesus up into the skies? But above all, what sets Jesus apart from the other Greco-Roman demigods still worshipped in his own time, allowing him to perform similar or even greater miracles than they could? A meticulous and unbiased investigation, that not only deconstructs the standard story of Jesus, but also offers a new, and at times shocking, view on a figure that has shaped history. View Less