God’s Ghostwriters

‘Refreshingly readable … Definitely one to ponder the next time someone tries to tell us what they are saying is the “gospel truth”’ Guardian

‘A tour de force that will be a revelation to many… An intellectual triumph – it encourages us to think of the New Testament in particular, and early Christian writing in general, in provocatively exciting new ways’ Irish Independent

‘[Moss’s] massive achievement is to shift the paradigm and tell the early Christian story from the perspective of the enslaved’ Spectator

‘Professor Moss has bitten the bullet and attempted the impossible: to delineate the invisible … The primary area of the author’s study is the New Testament, but vivid investigations of subsequent developments follow, each neatly woven round one prominent core: the development of the text itself’ Church Times

‘Moss’ blending of sacred and secular sources significantly reimagines the writing and reading of the New Testament… Gives voice and dignity to enslaved contributors to the New Testament’ The Critic

‘A book to put an exegetical cat among nervous scholarly pigeons … Therefore very interesting; it may well mean that many of the problems of New Testament scholarship are not as easily solved as we had supposed’ The Tablet

‘Erudite … Students of Christian history will find plenty to appreciate in this innovative reinterpretation’ Publishers Weekly

‘Lucid, convincing, and deceptively transgressive’ Rev. Jarel Robinson-Brown, author of Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer

‘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’ Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Candida Moss is professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame. A regular contributor to The Daily Beast, Moss has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, CBS News, FOX News, the History Channel, National Geographic, and the Travel Channel, and has served as an expert commentator for the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other national media outlets.