More than four billion people trace their faith to the God of Abraham. At the center of that shared inheritance stands one figure: Jesus of Nazareth.
Revered as the Messiah. Honored as a prophet. Examined as a first-century Jewish teacher whose life continues to resist simple definition.
Misunderstood is a historical investigation into that life — not through a single tradition, but across them.
Drawing on canonical texts, apocryphal writings, early Christian sources, and Islamic tradition, the book applies established historical methods — multiple attestation, the criterion of embarrassment, and cross-tradition comparison — to examine how Jesus has been remembered, interpreted, and transformed over time.
What emerges is not a single, easy conclusion, but a set of tensions that have never fully disappeared.
