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In 2005, a disgruntled archivist at the Vatican Library made contact with revisionist historians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, claiming that the Vatican was secretly housing a number of unpublished 'heretical' Gnostic Christian texts. He presented Freke and Gandy with a facsimile copy of an ancient manuscript, which is presented to the public for the first time in this book. This gospel will shock academics and Christians alike. It makes the extraordinary claim that the long-awaited 'Second Coming of Christ' has already happened; and it also explores the intimate relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, his 'Beloved Disciple.' Perhaps most controversial of all, it reveals Jesus as a Gnostic master with a zany sense of humour and an upbeat message. As Jesus says himself in the text- 'Death is coming. Life is foreplay.'

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Freke and Gandy's Gospel of the Second Coming belongs to exactly the same species as the Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi. Like them, it is a fictive dialogue presenting its authors' best insights as if Jesus had said them. Okay, it's a lot funnier than the Nag Hammadi books, but I've always thought satire is the true prophecy anyway. Read it if you dare! -- Robert M. Price Professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies and the author of Jesus is Dead

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Tim Freke has an honours degree in philosophy and is an internationally respected authority on world mysticism. His previous books include The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Goddess, which inspired Dan Brown. He has been featured in numerous TV and radio documentaries. He lectures and leads seminars in the US and UK. Peter Gandy has an MA in classical civilization and is an international authority on the ancient pagan mysteries and early Christianity.

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