The Historical Mary: Revealing the Pagan Identity of the Virgin Mother

Rating:
Summary: Nonsense
Review: The Historical Mary: Revealing the Pagan Identity of the Virgin Mother, is little more than a collection of archaic anti-Christian libel, retold from the point of view of perverse Freudian illogic. What passes for research seems little more than the product of a prurient imagination. The reader is treated to the specious allegations that Mary was a prostitute involved in a pagan sex cult, and that the biological father of Jesus was a Jewish priest with the moniker of "Gabriel." The author's coup de main is the inane accusation on page 161, that Christ committed incest with his mother (in a pagan "Sacred Marriage"), while encouraging Mary Magdalene to be a voyeur at the event. One would be hard pressed to unearth a stronger indictment than this book of the human culpability to reinvent and re-circulate senseless and unsupported innuendo.

Portraying an Oedipal Jesus with his mother Mary as a temple harlot is ludicrous as historical inquiry, and revolting as fiction. The author's attempt to ascribe perverse pagan sexual proclivities to the religious Jews of the 1st century is both inaccurate and insulting to Judaism. The offense many Muslims found in the publication 'Satanic Versus,' pales in comparison to the revulsion awaiting an unwary Christian reader of this book.

Thankfully, Christianity which Mr. Jordan decries, today preaches forgiveness instead of burning at the stake for authors of profane books.