The secret legacy of Jesus : the Judaic teachings that passed from James the Just to the Founding Fathers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bütz, Jeffrey J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, [2010]
Subjects:	Jewish Christians > History > Early church, ca. 30-600. Jesus Christ > Miscellanea. Christianity > Miscellanea. Secret societies > Religious aspects > Christianity. Freemasonry > Religious aspects > Christianity. James, > Brother of the Lord, Saint.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by James D. Tabor
Introduction: The quest for the grail
Part I: The roots of Jewish Christianity
An unheralded family : the bloodline of Jesus
"Who do you say that I am?" : the quest for the historical Jesus
In the beginning : the Nazarenes and the Jewish origins of Christianity
Part II: The history of Jewish Christianity
The caliphate begins : James and the Jerusalem church
James versus Paul : a parting of the ways
Storm signals : the Nazarenes and the war with Rome
Aftermath : from Nazarenes to Ebionites
The Ebionite Evangel : the mission of Jewish Christianity
Ebionite theology: a third religion between church and synagogue
Part III: The legacy of Jewish Christianity
From Ebionites to Elkesaites : the evolution of Jewish Christianity
Jewish Christianity in Arabia: Muhammad and the rise of Islam
From Elkesaites to Cathars : the heresy moves west
Heresy in high places : the rise and fall of the Knights Templar
From Jesus to freemasonry : the founding fathers and the building of a new Jerusalem.