This is the best book when it comes to looking at Jesus Christ through the Historical Jesus lens. This book talked about all the things that my history side was in conflict with the spiritual and belief side. This book is not for a layman reader. I have a degree in secondary education History and enough religion classes from evangelical churches and Bible college under my belt that it was a pretty easy read. With all the written, this is an opinionated book and I did not agree with everything but it is extremely well researched.