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Marketing the Messiah
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How a fringe Jewish sect took over the Roman Empire

Marketing the Messiah

The greatest story ever told — finally told accurately, by twelve PhD biblical scholars and ancient historians. Including practising Christians. Especially including practising Christians.

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Saint Paul, depicted in mosaic
A biblical scholar interviewed in the film

A story you think you know. A history you probably don’t.

Most of what people believe about the origins of Christianity — believers and skeptics alike — comes from tradition, not history. The first gospel wasn’t written until decades after the crucifixion. The letters came first. And the man who wrote them never met Jesus.

Marketing The Messiah walks through the first hundred years, in the order it actually happened, with the people who study it for a living. It’s funnier than it sounds. It’s also more careful than it sounds.

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Starring

Twelve scholars. One history.

Every one of them teaches or publishes on the New Testament and the ancient world. They don’t all agree about God. They broadly agree about the history.

Dr Geoffrey Dunn
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
Dr Michael Bird
RIDLEY COLLEGE
Prof. Mark Goodacre
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Brent Landau
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
Dr Chris Forbes
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY
Dr Shushma Malik
UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON
Dr Amy-Jill Levine
VANDERBILT
Prof. David Runia
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE & ACU
David Fitzgerald
AUTHOR OF "NAILED"
Richard Carrier, PhD
INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN
Robert M. Price, PhD
AUTHOR & THEOLOGIAN
Raphael Lataster, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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