Jesus Of The Apocalypse

In her controversial 1992 bestseller Jesus the Man, Barbara Thiering first showed how the pesher method of ''decoding'' two separate levels of meaning found in the Dead Sea Scrolls could be used by applying it to the Gospels, and presented a completely new historical interpretation of the life of Jesus Christ. Now, in a new work of remarkable research and scholarship, she sets out to unravel the mysteries that have long surrounded the elusive complexities of the Book of Revelation. ''It was not,'' she writes, ''about vision and apocalypse, but about the profoundly important history of the Christian movement from AD 1 to AD 114.'' In Jesus of the Apocalypse, Barbara Thiering presents a new and significant view of the development of Christianity from the time of the crucifixion until the second century AD. She argues that Jesus was no solitary preacher appearing suddenly on the shores of Lake Galilee: he was a central figure in a major political movement to