Starting with Atwill's Caesar's Messiah theories, this book explores the following questions. How was the story of Jesus's life written? Who was Paul and what was his role in the creation of Christianity? What was his provenance and did he actually meet the resurrected Christ? Who wrote Revelation and what was the document's purpose? Why was Domitian assassinated? Who was Clement and what was the nature of his relationships with Peter and Josephus? Were the Pseudo-Clementine materials really "pseudo"? Why did Saulus attack Justus? How were the gospels written? What was the significance of the...

The central goal of this book is to define the specific themes and concepts that make up Domitian's contribution to Christianity - in a sense, we are defining the specific Domitian overlay to the Christian materials originally developed for Titus. In the author's previous book on this topic entitled Unkilling Jesus, he presented analyses to support the thesis that Jesus was a fictional composite of the Emperor Vespasian, and his sons Titus and Domitian. This book takes the next step by showing that many of the documents thought to be of early Christian origin were actually written during the...