The Jesus Mysteries : Was The "original Jesus" ... File

While the book became a popular sensation, it is widely criticized or dismissed by mainstream academic historians.

: They followed up with Jesus and the Lost Goddess , which focuses on Christian mysticism and the "Aeon of Wisdom", and The Laughing Jesus . The Jesus mysteries : was the "original Jesus" ...

The authors contend that early Christianity was essentially a Jewish adaptation of the ancient . While the book became a popular sensation, it

: Freke and Gandy claim the Jesus story parallels myths of "Osiris-Dionysus"—god-men who were born of virgins, turned water into wine, and rose from the dead. turned water into wine