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At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, Best of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a celebrated classicist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Darkening Age\u003c\/i\u003e (\"[a] ballista-bolt of a book\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), a landmark work of religious history about the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Christian traditions--and how they were lost until just one \"true\" Christ survived.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity's existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, as a wealth of apocryphal gospels and forgotten texts reveal, there were many different Christs. 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