دانلود کتاب The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul

Originally published in Swedish under the title: Vad hande pa vagen till Damascus:
Pospaning efter den vefglike Jesus fron Nasaret.

Lena Einhorn, 2006, What Happened on the Road to Damascus?

Translated by Rodney Bradbury.


Filmmaker and medical doctor Lena Einhorn uses all her scientific skills to elucidate the true story about the historical Jesus, changing, perhaps irrevocably, the study of New Testament history and the way we see the relationship between Jesus and the apostle Paul.

From Booklist
Joining the pantheon of books about the historical Jesus comes one written by a filmmaker, not a theologian. Einhorn, who has produced documentaries and feature films (Loving Greta Garbo ), writes in a style that is definitely cinematic: no dry, dusty walk through history here. Rather, Einhorn presents information as though she were writing a mystery. Step-by-step, starting with the question of whether Jesus ever existed, she brings together all the known (and little-known) clues about the Jesus story and follows them to what she finds a logical conclusion--that Jesus and Paul were one and the same. This is, by far, the weakest part of the book, with gaping holes in the most obvious of its enumerated conclusions. To her credit, Einhorn gives the arguments for and against her thesis, but the latter rather than the former are likely to persuade readers. That said, this Swedish import does a remarkable job of pulling the evidence together and presenting it in a way that should garner a good chunk of the seemingly insatiable Da Vinci Code audience. Ilene Cooper

Review
"What Happened on the Road to Damascus is as thrilling as a crime novel. Clue after clue is revealed without your ever being able to work out the solution to the riddle." Ulrika Kärnborg in Dagens Nyheter
"Intriguing, disturbing, and always compelling: intriguing because it is a theological thriller; disturbing because it shows how malleable the small amount of evidence we have is; and compelling because it contains new, strong arguments about Jesus, arguments that present it inevitably as a history to be taken seriously." Theodore Riccardi, Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

"I had not read many pages before I was hooked. Known and unknown facts, assumptions and hints are mixed with each other in a way that brings out new perspectives....But to the extract the knowledge is one thing, to meld it into exciting reading is another. The result is magnificent." K. G. Hammar, Archbishop (Lutheran) of Sweden 1997-2006 in Dagnes Nyheter

"As exciting as a thriller. One finds oneself curiously and impatiently turning the pages, wondering where she will take you next." Christer Hugo in Smalandsposten