Monday, April 03, 2006

Update on "Holy Blood, Holy Crap"

On Sunday's Dateline NBC, Michael Baigent rehashed his "Jesus faked the Crucifixion" theory, then discussed new evidence that Christ was writing letters to his followers years after his supposed death. He admitted he has only seen two such letters; the others he "knows" about haven't been photographed, copied, nor even seen. He's not actually certain they exist. The letters he did see are squirreled away in the basement of a wealthy European collector who prefers not to be named, Baigent says. So that's it! That's the evidence for his book The Jesus Papers. A bit underwhelming, isn't it?

2 comments:

Laura said...

I dunno... It doesn't seem like any less evidence than we have to prove the commonly held version of the story of the crucifixion, right? But yes, a scholarly book should have more concrete evidence...

S.M. Elliott said...

Exactly. I wouldn't expect straightforward history from a religious text, but I think it's fair to expect history from a "historian".