Title: Not believable
Product review: I started to get a bad feeling about this book already on page 8, where the authors cite Hugh Schonfield's off-the-wall book, The Passover Plot, as if it were a standard reference work on early Christianity (they also seem to think it was published in 1993) ... and things go downhill from there.The authors believe that the crucified figure on the Shroud of Turin is not Christ, but (pause for drumroll) Jacques deMolay. The problem here is that while deMolay was certainly martyred by the Inquisition, there's no indication whatever in the historical record that he was crucified. The detailed and gruesome description of this "event" is presented as narrative fact, but is actually pure speculation. Bah! If you're looking for a book about goofy theories on the history of Christianity, I recommend Holy Blood, Holy Grail: it's much more readable and sometimes is almost convincing.
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