The Jesus Dynasty

There is a family resemblance, if I can put it that way, between the mystical Jesus cult and similar kinds of devotional cultic practices in the Greco-Roman world in the first century Roman Empire. We have a Jesus, you know, how portraits in Mark and John are so different. How do we choose between? Well, James can be the key for me anyway. He was according to our sources either appointed or elected by the senior apostles themselves. So he is a man who has complete the complete confidence of people who knew Jesus.