The historical Jesus is as elusive as he is appealing. Everyone wants to find who the man really was. Scholars pour over the pages of the New Testament and apocryphal literature for any clue about his true identity. People have looked in all places for answers—accept one. The Talmud contains a powerful counter-narrative to the Christian and scholarly consensus about Jesus. Did Jesus live in the first century BCE? Was he the son of a Roman soldier? Did he perform magic? Why was he executed? These are all questions that the Talmud answers, pointing us closer to knowing who the historical Jesus was and when he lived. Within these pages, you will find a clear presentation of the Talmud’s narrative and some of the implications of this narrative for our understanding of Jesus as a Jewish man from Greco-Roman Palestine.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States. Showing that this history is best appreciated in a comparative perspective, The Long, Lingering Shadow looks at the parallel legal histories of race relations in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America. Robert J. Cottrol takes the reader on a journey from the origins of New World slavery in colonial Latin America to current debates and litigation over affirmative action in Brazil and the United States, as well as contemporary struggles against racial discrimination and Afro-Latin invisibility in the Spanish-speaking nations of the hemisphere. Ranging across such topics as slavery, emancipation, scientific racism, immigration policies, racial classifications, and legal processes, Cottrol unravels a complex odyssey. By the eve of the Civil War, the U.S. slave system was rooted in a legal and cultural foundation of racial exclusion unmatched in the Western Hemisphere. That system's legacy was later echoed in Jim Crow, the practice of legally mandated segregation. Jim Crow in turn caused leading Latin Americans to regard their nations as models of racial equality because their laws did not mandate racial discrimination-- a belief that masked very real patterns of racism throughout the Americas. And yet, Cottrol says, if the United States has had a history of more-rigid racial exclusion, since the Second World War it has also had a more thorough civil rights revolution, with significant legal victories over racial discrimination. Cottrol explores this remarkable transformation and shows how it is now inspiring civil rights activists throughout the Americas.

A secret manuscript, long thought to have been destroyed centuries ago by the Roman Pope was uncovered by accident behind an old discarded section of the Vatican City vaults. Facing certain death at the hands of the Church if exposed, 13 dedicated Priests hid copies of the ancient scrolls in 12 churches across the globe of different faiths with the 13th copy hidden in a bank safe deposit box inscribed with the ancient seal of the Templar Knights. After years of the Vatican Church's denial of its existence, a possible explanation can finally be found in the controversial book, Jesus: The Rise of the Nazarene. This plausible account tells of the real life exploits of Jesus and his gospels of God, before the principalities behind the Vatican, perverted and re-wrote the history in order to form a one world religion under their "NEW WORLD ORDER" Empire at the Council of Nicaea in 325. A.D.Inside this book you will discover many hidden truths including: -The missing years of Jesus' life -How Jesus really became the Son of God You will also see the controversial reason: -Why Jesus really had to die on the cross Then you will discover the sinister plot: - Why the Vatican hid the name of the true betrayer of Jesus Christ The Catholic Church will gasp as we finally uncover: Who the hidden power is behind the Catholic Pope Come and discover the truth before the power of Rome bans this book!

Over the course of his career, singer-songwriter Michael Card has explored the depths of Scripture by bringing together biblical study and the power of the imagination. Now he sheds light on the life of Jesus through forty lyrical reflections on the four Gospels, leading us to a place where Jesus becomes real and we can hear him with both hearts and minds.

The Nazarene Gospel Restored is Robert Graves's major work on the life of Jesus, written in collaboration with the distinguished Hebrew scholar Joshua Podro. The research and writing occupied them for over ten years, in a working relationship compounded, in John W. Presley's phrase, 'of argument, scholarship and mutual respect', in which the imaginative writer and the Hebraist drew on their vast knowledge of the ancient world to reveal an extraordinary new, 'true' story of Jesus. The result is, as Graves wrote to T.S. Eliot, 'a very long, very readable, very strange book', and one that Presley argues is as central to Graves's thought as The White Goddess. The Nazarene Gospel Restored was controversial when first published: the Church Times refused to advertise it, reviews were hostile, and Graves twice sued for libel. In the twenty-first century it is possible to read it in the context of a continuing engagement with the historical Jesus, both scholarly and popular. In this new edition, John W. Presley gives a detailed account of the composition and reception of the book, setting it in the context of Graves's writing and of biblical scholarship. The inclusion of Graves's Foreword and annotations for a project revised edition make this an indispensable resource.

After centuries of persecution, oppression, forced migrations, and exclusion in the name of Christ, the development of a Jewish “Quest for the Historical Jesus” might seem unexpected. This book gives an overview and analysis of the various Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene throughout the centuries, emphasizing the variety of German voices in Anglo-American contexts. It explores the reasons for a steady increase in Jewish interest in Jesus since the end of the eighteenth century, arguing that this growth had a strategic goal: the justification of Judaism as a living faith alongside Christianity.

A secret manuscript, long thought to have been destroyed centuries ago by the Roman Pope was uncovered by accident behind an old discarded section of the Vatican City vaults. Facing certain death at the hands of the Church if exposed, 13 dedicated Priests hid copies of the ancient scrolls in 12 churches across the globe of different faiths with the 13th copy hidden in a bank safe deposit box inscribed with the ancient seal of the Templar Knights. After years of the Vatican Church's denial of its existence, a possible explanation can finally be found in the controversial book, Jesus: The Rise of the Nazarene. This plausible account tells of the real life exploits of Jesus and his gospels of God, before the principalities behind the Vatican, perverted and re-wrote the history in order to form a one world religion under their "NEW WORLD ORDER" Empire at the Council of Nicaea in 325. A.D.Inside this book you will discover many hidden truths including: The missing years of Jesus' life How Jesus really became the Son of God You will also see the controversial reason: Why Jesus really had to die on the cross Then you will discover the sinister plot: Why the Vatican hid the name of the true betrayer of Jesus Christ The Catholic Church will gasp as we finally uncover: Who the hidden power is behind the Catholic Pope Come and discover the truth before the power of Rome bans this book!