Is it possible Jesus never actually died, but survived the crucifixion — and that’s why his followers could claim they saw him afterward? Because they really did?
I’ve been discussing a couple of the Gospels that have been forged in modern time either as hoaxes, or money-makers, or (usually) both. Here is one that deals with a question of Jesus faked death — an issue people occasionally ask me about still today.
This discussion is taken from the final chapter of my book Forged (Harper, 2011), slightly edited here.
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Unlike some other modern forged Gospels,
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