Mistaken Messiahs: The Real Truth About Jesus and the Early History of Christianity

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Paul McGrane

Mistaken Messiahs

The Real Truth About Jesus and the Early History of Christianity

Paul McGrane

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English

Singular Books
14 September 2023

History of religion; The historical Jesus; Bibles; Christian theology

Series: A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled

Mistaken Messiahs is the second volume in a three-book series called A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled

A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled offers, in three volumes, a revolutionary new understanding of the roots of Judaism and Christianity by way of a complete, rationalistic re-interpretation of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. There has never been anything like this – in scope, in approach, and in findings. It may be possible to continue in Jewish or Christian belief in the light of this trilogy, but it would be a very different kind of religious faith from the one normally espoused. Each volume has been written to stand alone, but there is a natural sequence to the arguments developed which is facilitated if they are read in order.

This volume, Mistaken Messiahs, traces how Jewish messianic belief finds its way unrecognisably into the New Testament. It shows that the Jesus of the Gospels was a fiction disguising a more mundane reality. And that the entire chronology of 1st Century Palestine is shifted forwards by a decade, obscuring the real personalities and events behind the Christian story.

The previous volume, Ancestral Tales, traces the true ancestral and religious history of the Israelites and in particular, identifies among much else, the Pharoah of the Exodus, and the historical figures behind Joseph and Moses.

Volume Three, Apocalypse Postponed, focuses on the Christian belief in imminent apocalypse and traces how thoroughgoing misunderstanding of the relevant Old and New Testament texts has led to two millennia of fallacious expectation.

By: Paul McGrane
Imprint: Singular Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781739392628
ISBN 10: 1739392620
Series: A Bonfire of Inanities: The Bible Dismantled
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 14 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maps Foreword Preface 1 Overview 2 Jewish Origins 3 Christian Origins 4 The Jesus Fallacy 5 The Pauline Fallacy 6 The New Paradigm Select Bibliography

After more than three years research in an archive of original manuscripts at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, Paul McGrane obtained a Doctorate (DPhil). He has spent the last twenty years applying his academic skills to biblical research in a search for rationalist solutions to fundamental issues of Christian belief.

Reviews for Mistaken Messiahs: The Real Truth About Jesus and the Early History of Christianity

‘…sets out an alternative history of the genesis of Christianity that is both thought-provoking and staggering in its implications.’ Philip Davies, Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at Sheffield University