by Josephus And Josepher (Author)

Did Jesus Christ die at the prison of Machaerus, years before he took his mission to Jerusalem? Did a book, written some forty years after that event, document the true story of Jesus? What happened to that book, following the rise of Christianity, and how did it resurface in recent times? In Against Mark: On the Antiquity of the Jew called Jesus, we find answers to these questions, and many others. We find Jesus framed as an itinerant orator, traveling the countryside and preaching and performing exorcisms among his activities. Those activities lead to charges of sedition. We find the Gospel writer Mark framed as an irascible old man. We find his mentor, Peter, positioning himself as an authoritative witness and therefore creating a role for himself in the Passion story. We find Mark's entire Gospel questioned and criticized. There was a reason the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and John were then necessary to re-establish the Jesus narrative. Against Mark should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in Jesus and the Gospels, or Church history, or Ancient Rome, or Judaism in the Second Temple period, or the historian known as Josephus. On these pages, discoveries are everywhere.