HOW JESUS BECAME CHRISTIAN

What's a Messiah supposed to do? What's a "Christ"? How did Paul become so influential, displacing the movement led by Jesus' brother, James? How did the early Christian movement separate from Judaism, while trying to claim its heritage for its own? Why was the early Church so anti-Semitic? This book takes the reader on a journey through early Christianity.

Written for the non-specialist by an expert in early Christianity, the book uses the results of contemporary scholarship to explore these issues.

Advancing the Jesus Cover-Up Thesis, Wilson argues that...

• Paul's religion was not the religion of Jesus
• there was a cover-up. The divine Gentile Christ was switched for the human Jewish Jesus. A religion about the Christ was substituted for the teachings of Jesus. Moreover, the religion of Paul displaced that of Jesus.
• the New Testament is not a neutral collection of early church writings. It was produced, selected and approved by one – but only one faction – of early Christianity, the very group that endorsed the cover-up.
• the Book of Acts presents us with a fictitious history of early Christianity and represents an unreliable source of information.
• Anti-Semitism is rooted within New Testament writings and is the result of the cover-up.

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PUBLISHERS

How Jesus Became Christian is published in the USA by St. Martin’s Press, New York; in Canada, by Random House Canada, Toronto; and, with a different jacket cover, in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand by Orion Publishing, London.

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Please contact:

In USA – Ms. Colleen Schwartz, St. Martin’s Press, New York -- Colleen.Schwartz@stmartins.com

In Canada – Ms. Sheila Kay, Random House Canada, Toronto -- SKay@randomhouse.com

In the U.K., Australia and New Zealand – Ms. Rebecca Lewis, Orion Publishing Group Ltd., London - rebecca.lewis@orionbooks.co.uk