Jesus: Pagan Christ or Jewish Messiah?

About the Book

This carefully researched book is a skeptic’s search for the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. It is generally believed that Christianity originated as a sect of Judaism. Most Christian and Jewish scholars accept as a given that Jesus was a Jew who preached in Galilee and died near Jerusalem in Judea.

But who was this man, Jesus? Was he a Jewish prophet or messiah? A Zealot rebel leader? A Cynic philosopher? A pagan Christ? Was Jesus really Jewish?

Why would believing Jews accept Jesus if he rejected everything they held sacred? The Church replaced the Synagogue. Christian Holy Days replaced Jewish Holy Days. The rite of circumcision was replaced by baptism. Jewish law and practices were rejected by Jesus. Christianity is said to have originated within Judaism. How could this be?

Why does Paul know nothing of the central events of the life of Jesus? Why are the details of Jesus’ life and death drawn from the Greco-Roman world and from the Jewish Scriptures? Why did it take more than 40 years after Jesus’ death for the story of his life to be written down?

Who created Jesus? And why?

About the Author

Laurence E. Dalton and Shirley Strutton Dalton are two amateurs who did their homework.