JOSHUA, THE MAN THEY CALLED JESUS

Port Melbourne: Thomas C. Lothian. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 085091812x . Illustrated, map on endpapers, fine copy in fine dustjacket. The Man They Called Jesus represents a sixty-year search to recover the life of the man became Jesus Christ. It is written with found respect for that life and equally Found disrespect for the forces that have distorted it. This is not 'another book about Jesus'. It is a work based on a very special faith — that behind the distortions and mythologising of this life, shaped by many hands, lay the forty-odd earthly years of a Galilean Jew called Joshua. This man experienced anger, doubt, despair and sexual desire: The search for this life carries the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the mysteries of Joshua's birth to the ugly, blood-and-iron reality of his death as a rebel against Rome. On that journey, there are old and new mysteries to confront: the Holy Family with seven children; the disappearance of Joshua's father; the true role of Mary Magdalene and the enigma of 'the other Mary', the murder of John the Baptist and its motive; the myth of Salome; the riddle of Judas the Twin; the strange transformation of Pontius Pilate; the identity of the 'Beloved Disciple' and how he shielded the arch enemy of his Master; a pagan secret of the Last Supper; the politics of miracles; the Gethsemane strategy; the final mystery of the empty tomb. ; 240 x 160mm; viii, 306 pages .