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A review by ciannait76
Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte
5.0
A lot have been said about the Knights Templars, and much more has been refuted. And while this is a work of fiction, its a pretty good representation of all the theories, woven together in a believable way. It also gives you a good historical overview of the period that this book talks about. It certainly was well researched.
What surprised and delighted me too was the way the author represented the beliefs of the Knights Templars. The beliefs expressed in the book are pretty much a mixture of pagan and muslim ideas. He mixed them so well that if you had not studied both you would not know this. The core beliefs expressed in the book was that the Knights Templars believed that Jesus Christ was just a man who had a message that was corrupted by Paul, and turned into something that it was not. This is basically what the muslims believe with an exception, though muslims do not believe that Jesus was the son of God they do believe that he was a prophet just like Mohammed, and that he was born of a virgin and that he was not killed in the crusifiction but rather that God took him up to heaven and put in his place another man who was killed. The Templars in this book talk about how the Virgin birth was something taken out of the pagan religions, after all the Mithras was born of a virgin and that is just one of the pagan gods.
This book talks about how the Templars as an order emerged and why and about its time in the Holy lands, and what they really did there. It ends just after they find the evidence of all their beliefs buried under the Temple Mount. It was a very enjoyable book to read, and you can learn history while you read it too.
What surprised and delighted me too was the way the author represented the beliefs of the Knights Templars. The beliefs expressed in the book are pretty much a mixture of pagan and muslim ideas. He mixed them so well that if you had not studied both you would not know this. The core beliefs expressed in the book was that the Knights Templars believed that Jesus Christ was just a man who had a message that was corrupted by Paul, and turned into something that it was not. This is basically what the muslims believe with an exception, though muslims do not believe that Jesus was the son of God they do believe that he was a prophet just like Mohammed, and that he was born of a virgin and that he was not killed in the crusifiction but rather that God took him up to heaven and put in his place another man who was killed. The Templars in this book talk about how the Virgin birth was something taken out of the pagan religions, after all the Mithras was born of a virgin and that is just one of the pagan gods.
This book talks about how the Templars as an order emerged and why and about its time in the Holy lands, and what they really did there. It ends just after they find the evidence of all their beliefs buried under the Temple Mount. It was a very enjoyable book to read, and you can learn history while you read it too.