The Earliest Footprint of Jesus: Yeshu ha-Notzri

"Yeshu Ha-Notzri" is the second volume of the historically inspired series, Before the Myth: The Earliest Footprint of Jesus. This book helps assess how the final written stories of Jesus came about. It offers compelling historical details by:

(1) Observing, through close literary analysis, firsthand migration of story development away from original geographical settings focused on Judaism to later Hellenistic environs familiar to Paul and his followers.

(2) Exposing the fallacy of treating Markan tradition as the earliest surviving glimpse of the historical figure.

(3) Replacing this exposed logic with a more dependable, Judaically inspired, profile from an original source tradition.

(4) Spotlighting the figure of Mary Mag′dalene and her crucial role restoring belief among the Nazarene's followers that Yeshu ha-Notzri was indeed Israel's Messiah.