The Jesus Papers

AN UNHOLY BLEND OF RELIGION AND POLITICS HAS SILENCED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS AND THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY

FACT: Jesus was Jewish. Is it truly blasphemous to suppose he might have been married and had children?

FACT: 150 years after Jesus died, a group of men who hated women suppressed the role of women in the emerging church.

FACT: The historical Jesus is incompatible with Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and can help draw these faiths together.

Twenty years ago Michael Baigent and his colleagues, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. Their bestselling book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with over two decades of additional research behind him, Baigent takes the reader on a journey through dramatic new evidence in The Jesus Papers that fiercely challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus.