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Author: Nixey, Catherine

Ancient / Biblical Israel

Published on 6 February 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 384 pages
197 x 130 x 25 | 288g

‘Heresy is a brilliant book’ – The Times’Enthralling . . . an absolute pleasure to read’ – The Sunday TelegraphIn the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence and the words of all four gospels is central to the teachings of the Christian Church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.

Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses, among them the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead.

Moreover, in the early ye