文档介绍：Table of Contents
Introduction 1
2. Fishers of Men: Men Who Were Caught Like Fish 38
3. The Son of Mary Who Was a Passover Sacrifice 45
4. The Demons of Gadara 58
5. Eleazar Lazarus: The Real Christ 93
6. The Puzzle of the Empty Tomb 125
7. The New Root and Branch 159
8. Until All is Fulfilled 174
9. The Authors of the New Testament 205
10. The Typological Method 219
11. The Puzzle of Decius Mundus 226
12. The Father and the Son of God 250
13. Josephus' Use of the Book of Daniel 259
14. Building Jesus 278
15. The Apostles and the abees 302
16. The Samaritan Woman and Other Parallels 326
Conclusion 333
Appendix 338
A Reader's Guide to the Names and Terms
in Caesar's Messiah 338
A Timeline of Jesus' and Titus' Lives 346
Endnotes 348
Selected Bibliography 354
About the Author 359
Introduction
In the popular mind, and in the minds of most scholars, the origin
of Christianity is clear: The religion began as a movement of the
lower-class followers of a radical Jewish teacher during the first cen-
tury . For a number of reasons, however, I did not share this cer-
tainty. There were many gods worshiped during Jesus' era that are
now seen as fictitious, and no archeological evidence of his exis-
tence has ever been found. What contributed most to my skepticism
was that at the exact time when the followers of Jesus were pur-
anizing themselves into a religion that urged its mem-
bers to "turn the other cheek" and to "give to Caesar what is Cae-
sar's," another Judean sect was waging a religious war against the
Romans. This sect, the Sicarii, also believed in ing of a Mes-
siah, but not one who advocated peace. They sought a Messiah who
would lead them militarily. It seemed implausible that two diamet-
rically opposite forms of messianic Judaism would have emerged
from Judea at the same time.
This is why the Dead Sea Scrolls were of such interest to me,
and I began what turned into a