CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PROLOGUE
A Personal Note

1. THE COVER-UP

2. CULTURES IN CONFLICT

3. BEING JEWISH IN A COSMOPOLITAN WORLD

4. THE SECRETS OF HISTORY

5. THE CHALLENGE OF JESUS

6. THE PROMISES OF JESUS

7. JESUS’S EARLIEST FOLLOWERS: THE JESUS MOVEMENT

8. WHAT HAPPENED TO JESUS?

9. THE TROUBLE WITH PAUL

10. THE BIG SWITCH: CHRIST FOR JESUS

11. THE JESUS MOVEMENT FADES AWAY

12. PAUL THE RADICAL

13. DEMONIZING JEWISH LEADERSHIP AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE

14. CONFISCATING JUDAISM’S HERITAGE

15. ATTACKING THE JEWISH CONCEPT OF GOD

16. ANTI-SEMITISM

17. THE COVER-UP REVEALED

EPILOGUE The Way Forward