This book is an extraordinary and provocative explanation of one of history's great unsolved mysteries: who - or what - was Jesus? The Gospels provide no direct answers, and both the life of Jesus as it has been recorded for us. and the teachings and activities of the Apostles, are surrounded by extraordinary contradictions and baffling inconsistencies. No reader can fail to be carried along by the tantalizing search for clues as Salibi attempts to unravel history's best-kept secret - the true identity of Jesus.