HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD (PB)

In the years after the death of Christ there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses – the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead. Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable – even heretical. Now, in Heresy, Catherine Nixey tells their extraordinary story.