Book of Yeshua: Chronicle of Our Spirit, Vol iii (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798993749013)

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The Book of Yeshua: Chronicle of Our Spirit. vol iii is a speculative history reconstructing the world of Yeshua and his relationship with the Breath of God. The Breath of God has been known by many names throughout the ages: first as Spente Mainyu in Zoroastrianism and later as the Holy Spirit or Ghost in Christianity and Islam. It is a spirit that changed religion. Before this, the purpose of worship was to propitiate the gods with animal and grain sacrifices. With Spente Mainyu, a creative force of responsibility towards one another, religion took on a layer of moral fiber able to reform individuals and societies. The effect of this spirit not only influenced religion, but also Humanism and Socialism. That is why I refer to it more inclusively as Our Spirit.

What do we know about Yeshua? The biography historians reconstruct is pure conjecture. Not a shred of evidence or documentation, during his lifetime, exists to shed a light on his life. The earliest Gospel was written thirty years after his crucifixion, relied on memories, and composed in Greek for a Roman audience. The Gospels hide as much as they reveal the historical Yeshua.

Nor has the story of Our Spirit been told. At its core, this narrative is a spiritual biography; one that reveals a revolutionary spirit moving us from an ancient to a modern world. The movement then, as now, is over our social soul. Though under attack today by white Christian nationalists, through the lives of Yeshua and his followers, Our Spirit developed as a cultural and political power with a will to be reckoned with.

As an annotated narrative of social justice and spirituality, the inspiration for the Book of Yeshua was Reza Aslan's Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Materials employed in the writing of this book include: The Bible, Gnostic Gospels, Dead Sea Scrolls, several biographies and histories-many authored by Michael Grant, and online resources.

This manuscript started out as a much larger work. Growing monstrous, it needed to be broken down into several volumes. Book of Yeshua is the first one published, but the third chronologically. The other projected volumes in order are: Book of Zarathustra, Book of Herod the Great, Book of Mohammad, and lastly, The House that Jane Addams Built. A collection of short biographies is also planned.