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The Jesus They Buried: Mary Magdalene, the Lost Gospels, the House of David, and the Empire That Stole the Carpenter's Name
Paperback
Publisher Price: $34.99
ISBN13: 9781067816735
Publisher: Plant Design Press
Published: Apr 6 2027
Pages: 698
Weight: 2.12
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Two thousand years ago, a Galilean Jewish man was executed by the Roman Empire as a political threat. Almost everything you think you know about what happened next was shaped, edited, and in places invented by the institution that later claimed his name.
THE JESUS THEY BURIED is a rigorous, evidence-first investigation into the most contested figure in history: the man Rome killed, the woman who stood at his tomb, the gospels that were buried in the Egyptian desert, the forgeries manufactured a thousand years later, and the long campaign to decide what ordinary readers would ever be allowed to know.
This is not another conspiracy book, and it is not a sermon. For forty years, popular writing about Jesus and Mary Magdalene has blurred the line between evidence and imagination. This book draws that line clearly and shows its work at every step, using a single tool the reader learns to wield: the three-bucket method, which sorts every claim into what is Documented, what is honestly Debated, and what is Legendary, while tracking the fourth force that runs through all three: propaganda, the institutional and commercial manipulation that shaped the record.
Follow the evidence through the whole story:
- The historical Jesus who stands outside the Bible, in Josephus, in Tacitus, in the Pilate Stone and the Caiaphas ossuary.
- Mary Magdalene before the Church recast her as a prostitute in 591, the Gospel of Mary that gave her a voice, and the real question of what companion meant in the Gospel of Philip.
- The House of David, confirmed in stone by the Tel Dan Stele, and the family of Jesus, including his brother James the Just, executed in 62 CE.
- The farmer who unearthed the Gospel of Thomas and the Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi in 1945, and what those buried sayings actually reveal about a suppressed early Christianity.
- The medieval legends that sailed Mary Magdalene to France, and the modern forgeries, from the Priory of Sion and Rennes-le-Chateau to Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code, that built a global industry on a bloodline.
- Constantine, the Council of Nicaea, the making of the New Testament canon, the Donation of Constantine, and how an empire took an executed rebel's name and remade it into a throne.
The book is honest with three audiences at once, and the honesty is not symmetrical, because the evidence is not symmetrical. Some of what the institutional church teaches is supported by the record. Some is not. Some of what the conspiracy literature claims is supported. Most is not. Whether you come from inside the faith, from committed skepticism, or from the grail-and-bloodline shelf, this book will unsettle something you believed, and give you something better in its place: a way to think.
By the final page you will be able to take any claim about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the suppressed gospels, the resurrection, or the bloodline, from any book, documentary, podcast, or pulpit, and locate it in the correct bucket on your own.
The kingdom, as one buried gospel put it, is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it. This book is about learning, at last, to see what is actually there.
A serious, accessible, and unflinching work of historical investigation for readers of Bart Ehrman, Elaine Pagels, and Reza Aslan, and for anyone who ever suspected the inherited story was incomplete.
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