This astonishing overview of the history of the origins of Christianity has an extra edge over other scholarly works done in this genre. The author depicts Jesus as a man, but not God, and rejected the miracles of the Gospel. He believes that by humanizing Jesus, he restores to him a greater dignity. Jesus has been depicted as a Galilean who was transformed from a Jew to a Christian, and Christianity that emerged was free from any Jewish influences. The book is ...