MISUNDERSTOOD: Jesus the Messiah

Who was Jesus before centuries of doctrine, translation, and empire shaped the way the world understood him?He prayed in Aramaic. The Gospels that carried his words to the wider world were written in Greek. Between those two facts lies one of the most consequential acts of translation in history.MISUNDERSTOOD: Jesus the Messiah returns to the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic records and reads them side by side - not to score points, but to show how often they converge, and where the differences actually lie.- What did "Messiah" mean to the people awaiting one?- How did the Greek word Logos come to stand at the center of Christian theology?- Why does the same Gospel that gives Jesus that title also record him saying, "The Son can do nothing of himself"?- What was the Injīl?- Why does the Qur'an call Jesus the Messiah, God's Word, and a spirit from Him?Dr. Isa Ruhullah Brimah restores the historical Jesus to the world in which he actually lived, following the evidence across scripture, language, history, and archaeology. The book asks hard questions of every tradition it examines - including the Muslim one - and asks them from the sources rather than from slogans.What appears is a Jesus at once more historical and more extraordinary: the Messiah, God's Word, an ascetic teacher, a mercy and a sign to all the worlds - and a man whose life still challenges everyone who speaks his name.