Why this Book:
The Conspiracy to Assassinate Jesus Christ

Original story and plot

No one, including theologians, has ever linked Sejanus to Jesus in any substantive way. My research identified only two commercially published mainstream entertainment works of fiction about Sejanus; a play published by Ben Johnson in 1692 and a 1998 detective story by David Wishart set in the time of Sejanus.

 

Historical authenticity, convincing chronology, and similar works

Considerable attention has been paid to the details of life in ancient Rome and Judea and great care has been taken to avoid anachronisms of every kind (including turns of phrase in the story telling).

 

The chronological congruity of secular and biblical events—an extremely difficult undertaking and the subject of many fierce debates—and believability where the facts are not known, are exhaustively researched in a manner similar to Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series of books, while maintaining a balance with the desirable story elements of fast pace, suspense, and action, all qualities found in successful roman epic and Christian religious works like I, Claudius, The Robe, Spartacus, Gladiator, The Da Vinci Code, The Last Days of Pompeii, Quo Vadis and Ben Hur.

 

Great motion picture potential

The story is filled with every ingredient of a motion picture director’s dream drama/action movie:

  • political assassinations
  • murder and state executions
  • multiple betrayals
  • multiple conspiracies
  • treason trials
  • intense political intrigue
  • civil war
  • extortion
  • seduction
  • adultery
  • sexual largess and extremes
  • despotism
  • revenge and vengeance
  • large-scale government corruption

 

Embedded with many hotly-debated Christian and secular controversies while maintaining faithfulness to biblical scriptures

The New Testament account of Jesus is faithfully maintained and never intentionally misrepresented or misinterpreted, with artistic license taken only for the denouement of Judas.


Incongruence in the historicity of Jesus are addressed and rectified where possible to allow for the suspension of disbelief for believers and non-believers, including:


  • Date of Jesus’ birth
  • Jesus’ family relationships (principally Mary Magdalene, James, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea)
  • The length of time of Jesus' ministry
  • Physical description of Jesus Christ, blending biblical references with scientifically-based conjecture
  • Judas’ role and motivations and whether he was actually commanded by Jesus to commit betrayal
  • When Judas betrayed Jesus (before or after the Last Supper)

  • A more convincing motivation for why Pilate, a cold-hearted, brutal, and violent governor of an oppressive invader who regularly displayed complete disregard for Judean and Samaritan lives, attempted to save Jesus’ life.

  • What crime Jesus was condemned for and what I.N.R.I. really means
  • Date of Jesus’ crucifixion
  • The type of cross (it was not a "T")
  • How crucifixion was actually conducted (eg. the hands are not impaled, feet do not overlay each other, etc.)
  • How long Jesus was on the cross
  • Medical description of Jesus Christ’s torture, crucifixion and death that meshes seamlessly with the biblical account of the Passion
  • How long Jesus was in his tomb

 

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