Killing Jesus: A History

Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings not only attempt to follow Jesus of Nazareth’s teachings but believe he is God. In this riveting account of Jesus’s life and times, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, and John the Baptist are among the legendary figures who play a part in Jesus’s story. Killing Jesus takes readers inside this most volatile epoch and the seismic political and historical events that made Jesus’s death inevitable—and changed the world forever.