Saint Saul A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

Donald Akenson shows that the answer to the most persistent question in Christianity -- What do we know about the historical Jesus? -- is best found in the writings of a caustic itinerant preacher named Saul. Saul, the author of the Epistles and known to Christians as Saint Paul, is the closest thing we have to a direct witness and our only opportunity to encounter Yeshua, as Jesus was known in his time, in something approaching the original. Recreating a time rich with prophets, savants, and god-drunk fanatics, Akenson sifts the evidence for and against the historical status of Saul and Yeshua and illuminates the circumstances that gave rise to Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.Akenson, Donald H. is the author of 'Saint Saul A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus' with ISBN 9780773523951 and ISBN 0773523952.