This well-documented book we discover the multi-religious context of the first centuries of the Ancient East, where Christianity was born. It offers nothing less than a hypothesis of development of this new type of Gnostic spirituality, including from mystery religions and Hellenistic Judaism. The character of Jesus was an incarnation of the god Kristos. He controversial history between the Masters "pagans" and the Fathers of the Church about this "story." In a very affordable reading: for all ages! This is to my knowledge the only contemporary English mythiste work translated into French. If you read English, take rather the American edition with an interesting unfortunately absent iconography of the French edition. Thank Aletheia Editions enable speaking readers to discover this item. In the US, "The Jesus Mysteries" was a bestseller: it seems that in our country this type of work is not welcome, so that the big publishers dare not publish them. See difficulties encountered Michel Onfray to re-pubier a classic Prosper Alfaric on the same subject.