Description

The first book to give the full account of the lost gospel of Jesus' original followers, revealing him to be a Jewish Socrates who was mythologized into the New Testament Christ.

How does this rediscovered text—the Book of Q—radically reshape our understanding of Christian origins?

The Lost Gospel: Explore the discovery and reconstruction of Q, a collection of Jesus’s teachings used by Matthew and Luke but lost to history for nearly two millennia. A Jewish Socrates: Uncover a portrait of Jesus not as a divine savior, but as a Cynic-like teacher of wisdom who challenged the social conventions of first-century Galilee. The First Followers: Meet the "Jesus people" of Q—a movement that followed a teacher’s social program and did not worship a Christ, regard his death as a saving event, or believe in the resurrection. Christian Mythmaking: See how the narrative gospels mythologized a wisdom teacher into the New Testament Christ, and what this process reveals about the true origins of Christianity.