The Real Messiah

From the beginning of time, there have been men who were larger than life and upon whom the pivot of history turned. To find these men, one need only look. Their deeds are preserved in monument, story and song: Julius Caesar, Plato, Archimedes, Akhenaton, Moses, Abraham, Jacob, Muhammad, Hitler, Charlemagne, King Richard the Lion-heart, King John, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus, to name a few.

Two thousand years ago, one man changed the face of religion and the course of history by his death and resurrection. His teachings endured in spite of Rome's pogroms to stamp out the slave religion. Roman emperor Constantine embraced those beliefs, organized and built the most powerful religion on Earth, one that still endures. That man was Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph, a simple carpenter. Every year at Easter Christians celebrate his triumph over the grave, but did the Roman Catholic Church get it wrong? Did the church fathers tamper with history and create a god out of the messenger sent to pave the way for the true Jewish Messiah?

Stephan Huller spent 20 years of his life traveling, researching and consulting with historians, linguists and theologians in his search for the truth. The Real Messiah is the culmination of that search; the evidence it contains fills in the gaps that theologians and Christian apologists have sought to reconcile over for nearly 20 centuries.

According to the prophecies, '[t]he intended [Jewish] Messiah had to be a king-not simply in a spiritual sense, but also in a political sense, [whose] arrival would alter Judaism forever. It would mean an abandonment of the Laws of Moses and a completely new Covenant with God that would be so all-encompassing that the very Temple of Jerusalem would be abolished and ultimately destroyed.' With that beginning to his story, Huller lays the groundwork and details the life and times of The Real Messiah, Marcus Julius Agrippa, last king of the Jews, a contemporary of Jesus, and the author of the four gospels of the new testament, also known as St. Mark. The proof begins with a small throne carved in one piece from alabaster in Alexandria in Egypt and now housed in Venice.

In what amounts to heresy, Huller boldly breaks down the myths and legends surrounding the story of Jesus and unfolds a story full of intrigue, mystery, '. . . incest, one of the most famous love affairs of its time, and a genius for power-play and influence that any dictator or monarch would have admired.' The Real Messiah is a fascinating, carefully researched, complex puzzle built on solid scholarship and grounded in Jewish mysticism. The truth is not out there, it is here.