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Will the real Jesus please stand up?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In the modern world we have a relatively narrow idea of who Jesus was, but things were quite different in the early years of Christianity. Many alternative versions of his life and personality proliferated, while at the same time, several other saviours also competed for attention. These stories are at the centre of a new book Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by the classicist and author Catherine Nixey, who is joined in conversation for this episode by Rob Attar. (Ad) Catherine Nixey is the author of Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God (Picador, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretic-Lives-Christ-Saviours-Ancient/dp/1529040353/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.4

In the modern world, we have a relatively narrow idea of who Jesus was.

0:50.0

But things were very different in the early years of Christianity.

0:54.6

Many different versions of his life story and personality proliferated,

0:58.7

while at the same time several other saviors also competed for attention.

1:03.8

These stories are at the centre of a new book, Heresy, Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God,

1:09.5

by the classicist and author Catherine Nixie. She was joined

1:13.4

in conversation by Rob Atar for today's episode. In the modern world, we have a relatively

1:20.1

narrow understanding of Christianity and the story of Jesus. But this wasn't always the case,

1:25.7

was it? No, not to all. I mean, certainly I was brought up with the

1:29.0

relatively narrow understanding by my family who my parents had been a monk and a nun before they

1:33.7

met and married. And I was brought up with a very traditional idea of, you know, the nice Jesus

1:39.0

of Sunday School and sunbeams who healed the sick, cured the blind, let the lame walk.

1:49.8

And I hadn't realized that actually in the early days, there were so many different stories that were told about Jesus, so many different kinds of early Christianity.

1:53.8

The scholars now talk about early Christianity, which sounds a little bit like the kind

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