Jesus and Riddle

by Barbara Thiering

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385254121
• ISBN13: 9780385254120
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is what probably really happened.

Christians will have a really hard time with this book because it pulls down the the myths surrounding Jesus. This book discusses the Jewish rituals and polatics of the time and puts it in perspective.It gives a look at the symbolism and how it was given. This book gives very important details of which you need to interpet the bible properly. Highly insightful and well woth the read!

Amazing discoveries!

Difficult, but excellent reading. Although it is necessary to go back and forth between the text and footnotes, it is definitely worth the effort. However, I am finding "Jesus of the Aplocalypse", a later book by Thiering to be much easier reading. This book is not available in the U.S. yet, but is a great follow-up.

A Scientific and honest analysis of the life of Jesus

This is unequivically one of the most difficult books to write. A devout protestant comes across enlightening information contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls and performs a scientific analysis of the Gospels and Acts with this new information. With all that is known about the scrolls and the settlement at Cumran, it is surprising that she is the first to apply this knowledge in such a way. A tour-de-force in the area of historical writing and reporting. While her final conclusions about the end of Jesus's life are a little disappointing, she refused to say any more than the texts would tell her and therefore comes up empty. This fact is proof of her devotion to a scientific analysis of the scrolls and the gospels and should be admired. A gripping tale backed up with 300 pages of appendicies; reccomended for anyone that is interested in a thought provoking, possibly life changing book.

Slow motion explosion

Here is a solid expanation of the historical beginning of Christianity and for many miracles in the Bible. This is history taken directly from the Dead Sea Scrolls unfiltered by organized religion I expected blockbuster reaction and great debate. I am greeted with a book out of print instead. I theorize that enough copies are in circulation that the explosion is merely slowed down. I hope it is not stiffled completely. Discovery Channel video "The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrools" covers a good portion of Barbara Thiering's discoveries.

A plausible scenario for existence of a human Jesus.

While many people and authors may view this as a crock, Ms. Thiering presents a very logical and plausible explanation for the many events surrounding the life and times of Jesus. The main idea is that the early writings, including the gospels, were essentially true, but encrypted via elaborate metaphors, to shield them from the politics of the times. I'd recommend it to historically open-minded readers.