 In his book "The Jesus Scroll", he claimed he met someone who had taken a scroll he had discovered at Masada.The scroll was allegedly written on 15 April 73 AD and signed by "Yeshua Ben Ya'akob Ben Gennesareth, the last rightful inheritor of the Hasmonean (Maccabean) Kings of Israel" – this is interpreted as Jesus of Gennesareth in this book.After a brief return to radio in Australia, he published "The Jesus Scroll" (Sydney, 1972; London, 1973), an original account of the life of Christ that became a best-seller and led to controversy and death threats.