Últimas noticias de Jesús

It is often believed that history is not as important as theology when approaching the egregious figure of Jesus of Nazareth. Big mistake. Archeology allows us to approach it from the study of stones, field work and the conscientious and persevering analysis of experts. This is demonstrated, for example, with the discovery in 2020 of a ritual bath from two thousand years ago at the foot of the Garden of Olives -which would explain the name of Gethsemane, where Jesus sweated blood at the beginning of his Passion-, or the so-called "Skeleton 4926", rescued from the bowels of the earth with the fragment of an iron nail fixed in its heel, in the image and likeness of Jesus. Zavala thus brings us closer, with his usual rigor and amenity, to all these discoveries and others that are equally or even more dazzling, such as the crown of thorns that girded the head of the Nazarene, the Holy Grail with which he celebrated the Last Supper or the linens that covered his body after the crucifixion. An explosive cocktail, in short, that of faith and science together, which José María Zavala knows how to put together like no one else in these pages, in which the reader travels hand in hand through the dark recesses of History, now illuminated after an astonishing investigation.