On Christian Origins

<p>There are many books on the market which purport to present the true origins of Christianity and the overwhelming majority of them assert despite a dearth of evidence that the religion began forty years before the destruction of the Jewish Temple and was the product of the teaching of one man — Jesus. Following centuries of tradition they place a Jewish sage at the centre of an epic drama set in the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius. It’s a great story. But it never happened.<br /> </p>