Product Description: The Secret Gospel gives the first real evidence of the method by which Jesus of Nazareth initiated his disciples into the esoteric practices of his teaching, making this a very important book for the history of humankind. In 1958, Morton Smith traveled to Jerusalem to do research in the monastery library of Mar Saba, in the Judean Desert...read more

Drawing on obscure fragments of ancient documents, the late author of The Secret Gospel challenges the orthodox version of the life of Jesus Christ with a portrait of Jesus as a feared practitioner of black magic. Original. IP. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: What does the Bible really say about capital punishment, government, the future, marriage and divorce, miracles, segregation and intolerance, slavery, war, wealth, women and the world? While literalist Christians insist that the Bible supplies all the anwers for today's ethical and social questions and liberals claims that the Bible can hardly be understood without the aid of advanced criticism, this collection shows that "what the Bible says is far more important than what its interpreters say"...read more

Challenges established Christian beliefs and explores the nature of magic and the biblical language of demons and miracles to reveal how Jesus was viewed by the people of his time

Product Description: The Secret Gospel gives the first real evidence of the method by which Jesus of Nazareth initiated his disciples into the esoteric practices of his teaching, making this a very important book for the history of humankind. In 1958, Morton Smith traveled to Jerusalem to do research in the monastery library of Mar Saba, in the Judean Desert...read more

Explores the role of hope in history, identifying the falsity of many of these hopes as the cause of the present social crisis, and uses a philosophical and historical framework to reassess contemporary society and suggest reasonable hopes for the future

Explores the political structure, art, and culture of Greece from the eleventh to the third century B.C.