"Religious historian Michael Baigent explores the religious and political climate in which Jesus was born and ""raised,"" the strife within the different factions of the Jewish Zealot ""movement,"" the migrations of Jesus's ""family,"" his subsequent exposure to other cultures and the influences that likely shaped his early years. Baigent also uncovers inconsistencies and biases in the accounts of the major historians of Jesus's ""time,"" upsetting the conventional account of Jesus's life and death and shaking the foundations of Christianity. Read by the author."