Book description
He came from the wrong social class, the wrong place and the wrong
profession. He ate with the wrong people, championed the wrong causes
and attracted the wrong kind of supporters. He even spoke with the wrong
accent. In fact everything about Jesus of Nazareth was wrong. How could
this odd-job man be God's Messiah?To the authorities he was a dangerous
rebel; to the pious he was scandalously unorthodox. Even his family
thought he was mad. But somehow this builder from 'up north' - this
outrageous, unorthodox, rebellious teacher and miracle worker - changed
the world. In this illuminating new biography, Nick Page strips away
centuries of misrepresentation and myth to reveal the real personality
portrayed in the gospels. Drawing on a wealth of historical and
archaeological research, the result is a startling and vivid new
portrait of Yeshua ben Yosef - Jesus of Nazareth. Challenging and
thought-provoking, THE WRONG MESSIAH will change the way you view Jesus:
the man who in so many ways seemed utterly wrong, but who history has
proved triumphantly to be right. Nick Page is the author of over sixty
books, including The Bible Book, What Happened to the Ark of the
Covenant and Other Bible Mysteries, The HarperCollins Atlas of Bible
History (editor) and most recently, THE LONGEST WEEK.
