The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History
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What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie?
What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now?
What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion?
In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. The book became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus.
Michael Baigent
Michael Baigent was born in New Zealand in 1948. Since 1976 he has lived in England with his wife and children. He is the co-author of the international bestsellers Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy (with Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh), as well as numerous other books. As a religious historian and leading expert in the field of arcane knowledge he has undertaken a two-decade long quest for the truth about Jesus that has culminated in the publication of The Jesus Papers.
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Reviews for The Jesus Papers
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Okay, here's the thing. The background information he presents was interesting to me. He made a few great points in the book that really made me think. But, let me go on to say, Biagent is trying to show how the NT is maybe not all we think it is - saying they are simply stories contrived to serve specific purposes and don't have the innocent writing background most assume today. Then he goes on to say they are false because there is fact A. And if we assume fact B caused fact A, and then we assume fact C caused fact B and then we do some more assuming, well, that proves this really incredible thing happened instead of what The Bible says. I find a lot of what may have happened just as woven and created, if not more so, than what he says about the Bible. Just my two cents though!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A lot of hype - little, if any, catharsis.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm into this sort if thing, so yeah, it was ok. Holy Blood Holy Grail is much better!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is great fun. It's one of those "what if? " type of books which, to my mind, should be read with tongue firmly in cheek. the historical accuracy of a lot of the content is probably questionable & I'm not sure that the conclusions would stand critical scrutiny ...but it is entertaining & must be worth a read from that perspective alone.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Baigent is one of the people responsible for the book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and this is partially a re-iteration of theories put forward then and partially a series of new issues that he's uncovered in the years since then. Interesting, and should be required reading for both historians and archaeologists. Why? Because although the leaps of faith he takes a few times are too far it would encourage looking at the facts and thinking about them without blindly accepting the "truths" presented. I'm sure lurking within the pages of this book there are some hidden things that need further investigation but they're obscured by rambling journeys on Baigent's pet hobby-horse, that Jesus was a member of the Essene community, survived past the crucifixion, was married to Mary Magdelene, his descendents live on today, that the Roman Catholic Church knows this and keeps it secret.It's a fun read, it's full of conspiracy but it is an interesting look at a different reflection on early Christianity.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the book for its historical perspective. However, there is a lot of hypothetical conjecture on the authors part with regards to linking of some events to prove their theories correct. I could give you a pretty convincing argument for the existence of a Yetti, but it doesn't mean they exisit. The book however does make me want to read the Bible again soon from a historical viewpoint.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The very first chapter started off with a great teaser of what I expected to find throughout the book. And the last chapter had some interesting points to read, but overall this book should have been named Religious beliefs. Like Holy Blood Holy Grail this book is all over the place, I guess Micheal did not have enough information on the Jesus Papers to actually write about his so called proof of papers that were written by Jesus long after the crucifixion. This book went way off topic and more or less described religion from the Neanderthal burials, Egyptian beliefs and several other communities that were in close proximity of the Jewish people and how some of the rituals were absorbed from each of these communities. As far as credibility of his research, his first chapter... his proof disappeared from a college, his view of the Jesus papers cannot be confirmed because he cannot read Aramaic text. About the only thing that I would find credible in his book is the fact that the Vatican has sought out ancient written texts to destroy anything that they find heresy.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Jesus is Lord, God him self dont reveal hi self for every one, so we do expect these kind of false research. reading this book is waste of time. lets pray for this gentlemen so that lord may reveal to him who he is.
praise be to Lord our God Jesus Christ.