God’s Ghostwriters

‘At once eminently readable and rigorously researched, God’s Ghostwriters cements Candida Moss as the most compelling voice in Biblical scholarship. The role of enslaved people in the writing and dissemination of the gospels has been ignored for far too long' New York Times bestselling author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth ‘A fascinating and beautifully written book. Candida Moss makes the invisible hands that wrote the Bible visible. She writes with a depth of scholarship and a lightness of touch that make this book both powerful and compelling’ Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age ‘A lucid, convincing, and deceptively transgressive book, God’s Ghostwriters gives the unfree a rightful place in history’ Rev. Jarel Robinson-Brown, author of Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer ‘Brimming with learning and buzzing with contemporary urgency… At once provocative and humane, it tells a very different version of the story of early Christianity to the one most of us grew up with’ Tim Whitmarsh, author of Battling the Gods and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge ‘Thought-provoking, intensely interesting, and immensely readable’ Eric Cline, Bestselling author of 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed ‘God's Ghostwriters is a work of historical, theological, and literary scholarship that will hold your attention like a well-crafted novel’ Brian D. McLaren, author of Do I Stay Christian? Praise for Candida Moss ‘Delightfully accessible yet based on prodigious scholarship, deeply serious, yet entertaining and enlightening’ Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years ‘Important and fascinating’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu