Full name: Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

Author: Joseph Atwill Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Religion, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon ISBNs: 9781569754573 9781461096405 1569754578 1461096405

Caesar's Messiah, a real life Da Vinci Code, presents the dramatic and controversial discovery that the conventional views of Christian origins may be wrong. Author Joseph Atwill makes the case that the Christian Gospels were actually written under the direction of first-century Roman emperors. The purpose of these texts was to establish a peaceful Jewish sect to counterbalance the militaristic Jewish forces that had just been defeated by the Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. Atwill uncovered the secret key to this story in the writings of Josephus, the famed first-century Roman historian. Reading Josephus's chronicle, The War of the Jews, the author found detail after detail that closely paralleled events recounted in the Gospels. Atwill skillfully demonstrates that the emperors used the Gospels to spark a new religious movement that would aid them in maintaining power and order. What's more, by including hidden literary clues, they took the story of the Emperor Titus's glorious military victory, as recounted by Josephus, and embedded that story in the Gospels - a sly and satirical way of glorifying the emperors through the ages. Similar books: The Fourth Thousand Years by W. Cleon Skousen Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity by James C. Russell Born in Blood by John J. Robinson Paul Was Not a Christian by Pamela Eisenbaum The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken The Bible in Translation by Bruce M. Metzger The Popes Against the Jews by David I. Kertzer A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. Sachar Bible and Sword by Barbara W. Tuchman A History of Israel by John Bright The Gods of Ancient Rome by Robert Turcan Ottoman Brothers by Michelle Campos A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom Rome and Jerusalem by Martin Goodman The Reluctant Parting by Julie Galambush The Medieval Manichee by Steven Runciman Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans The Lost Apostle by Rena Pederson