James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls I: The Historical James, Paul the Enemy, and Jesus' Brothers as Apostles

Why wouldn't Jesus have the same anti-Roman, pro-circumcision, dietary restriction ideas as his virgin, vegetarian brother, James, and the other members of the extreme Jewish faction that he belonged to in Jerusalem? Why do we think the Jews killed Jesus, when crucifixion is the Roman penalty for rebels? Has it got anything to do with Paul's "version" of the truth? Don't forget, Paul used to persecute the Jews. Paul had never met Jesus, but he seems to have taken over the message. Jesus' real message died with the Jerusalem Church, which was led by Jesus' brother, James. The Romans did a thorough job at extinguishing everything about those rebellious Jews in Palestine.

Absolutely fascinating but his writing style is turgid, repetitive and often confusing. The punctuation is all over the place and don't talk about proof reading. Some paragraphs are justified followed by ranged left then back to justified which is disconcerting. The page size is large so one column per page is a very long line-length - so your eye will wander occasionally, which is poor design. Thousands of words are italicised for no reason I can fathom - sometimes ten per paragraph. Long winded and frequently saying "as I will discuss later" of "as discussed already" and you think 'did we?". Overall could and should be half the length but still very very interesting from an author who clearly knows a lot about his subject.