Título: Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity
Autor: James S. Valliant
Sinopse: Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archaeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever. Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archaeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current bestsellers like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors. ***** ”I have rarely encountered a book so original, exciting, accessible and informed on subjects that are of obvious importance to the world and to which I have myself devoted such a large part of my scholarly career studying. In this book they have rendered a startling new understanding of Christianity with a controversial theory of its Roman provenance that is accessible to the layman in a very powerful way. In the process, they present new and comprehensive archeological and iconographic evidence, as well as utilizing the widest and most cutting edge work of other recent scholars, including myself. This is a work of outstanding and original scholarship. Its arguments are a brilliant, profound and thorough integration of the relevant evidence. When they are done, the conclusion is inescapable and obviously profound.” – Prof. Robert Eisenman, Author of James the Brother of Jesus and The New Testament Code “Powerful... well-argued... I think it’s great and I heartily recommend it. You’re in for a big surprise if you read this. It’s great stuff!” – Robert M. Price, author of The Colossal Apostle "A fascinating and provocative investigative history of ideas, boldly exploring a problem that previous scholarship has not clearly or credibly addressed: how (and why!) the Flavian dynasty wove Christianity into the very fabric of Western civilization." – Mark Riebling, author of Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity”, de James S. Valliant, publicado pela editora Crossroad Press, em 2016 e com 428 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Crossroad Press
Páginas: 428
Ano: 2016
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Linguagem: inglês
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Sobre a editora
O catálogo da Crossroad Press reúne histórias que transitam entre o horror visceral e o suspense investigativo, com narrativas que exploram desde o espaço profundo até becos sombrios da Londres vitoriana. Os livros da editora Crossroad Press frequentemente apresentam um tom tenso e atmosférico, onde personagens enfrentam ameaças tanto humanas quanto sobrenaturais, em ambientes ricos em detalhes sensoriais e conflitos intensos. Há obras que mesclam o extraordinário com o cotidiano, criando uma sensação inquietante de mundos distorcidos, enquanto outras investem em investigações pessoais e mistérios sombrios, com ritmo que varia do acelerado ao mais reflexivo. O material de apresentação indica também uma atenção especial a histórias que desafiam crenças e exploram origens históricas controversas, além de um interesse por tramas que unem elementos de terror clássico e ficção especulativa.
